Persecution and toleration in Protestant England: 1558 - 1689

"The book examines what toleration means now and meant then, explaining why some early modern thinkers supported persecution and how a growing number came to advocate toleration. Introduced with a survey of concepts and theory, the book then studies the practice of toleration at the time of Eli...

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Main Author: Coffey, John 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Harlow, England [u.a.] Longman 2000
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Studies in modern history
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Summary:"The book examines what toleration means now and meant then, explaining why some early modern thinkers supported persecution and how a growing number came to advocate toleration. Introduced with a survey of concepts and theory, the book then studies the practice of toleration at the time of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts, the Puritan Revolution and the Restoration. The seventeenth century emerges as a turning point after which, for the first time, a good Christian society also had to be a tolerant one." "Persecution and Toleration is a critical addition to the study of early modern Britain and to religious and political history."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XII, 244 S.
ISBN:0582304644
0582304652

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