Liberty in the things of God : the Christian origins of religious freedom / Robert Louis Wilken.
Wilken, Robert Louis, 1936- author.
2019
BV741 .W53 2019 (Mapit)
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Title Liberty in the things of God : the Christian origins of religious freedom / Robert Louis Wilken.
Author Wilken, Robert Louis, 1936- author.
ISBN 9780300226638 (hardcover)
0300226632 (hardcover)
Published New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, [2019]
Language English
Description x, 236 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number BV741 .W53 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 233.7
Summary In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external force, laying a foundation on which later generations would build. Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin. They took form before the Enlightenment through the labors of men and women of faith who believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. This provocative book, drawing on writings from the early Church as well as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reminds us of how "the meditations of the past were fitted to affairs of a later day."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index.
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Endowed with freedom
A Christian society
The two swords: Reformation in Germany
Custodians of both tables: Switzerland
Two religions in one city: France
Freedom of worship: The Netherlands
Sturdy piety: Catholics in England
Seeking faith's pure shrine: English separatists
Liberty necessary unto human nature.

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