How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review)

Church History;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......notion of heresy and persecution, and proposed that toleration was beneficial to a society. Castellio criticized...intellectual and moral firmness in the struggle for toleration (144). Likewise underestimated, according to Zagorin...Republic, fashioned, in several publications, a plea for toleration in ...

Friday Book: Can we stand for intolerance? THe Politics Of Toleration:...

The Independent - London;  September 3, 1999 ;     700+ words ......of Pol Pot and Heinrich Himmler, toleration was getting a bad press. In The Rights Of Man, Tom Paine wrote: "Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance...new and ugly rhetorical weapon. Toleration, then, remains politically hot...

Montaigne's Conception of the Self: A Non-Rights Basis for Toleration.

Perspectives on Political Science;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Although toleration is usually justified as a matter of...Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) argues for toleration on a non-rights basis. Instead of appealing...self-interest is not only compatible with toleration, it demands it. Thus understanding...

toleration

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;      266 words ...toleration A willingness not to interfere with beliefs, attitudes...sympathy for them or despite dislike of them. The value of toleration is said to lie in the absence of interference despite...persuasive arguments to legal coercion, the boundaries of toleration are inevitably unclear. For example, a person ...

Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830.(Book Review)

Wordsworth Circle;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Mark Canuel, Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830...60.00 Mark Canuel's Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830...fact is not so much religion as toleration, a term pertaining to the legal...

Toleration in Enlightenment Europe

The Catholic Historical Review;  April 1, 2004 ;     466 words ...Toleration in Enlightenment Europe. Edited by Ole Peter Grell and...academic symposia dealing with the issue of religious toleration in England (1991) and the European Reformation (1996...limited practice, religious tolerance, to a concept, toleration. This is the common theme of the different ...

Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689. (Reviews of...

Albion;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......anticipation of modernity and its achievement of religious toleration, Revisionists have severely underestimated these...revisionist strategy: complexifying the concept. Toleration, he reminds us, is neither indifference nor approval...describes Protestant theories of persecution and toleration. Before ...

The Life of John Milton: a Critical Biography.(Book Review)

Church History;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......777 pp. $39.95 cloth. John Milton is a hard man to know. Generations...tireless advocate of religious toleration who could also call for...most complete use yet of Milton's personal records and correspondence...background from which many of Milton's radical positions came...unwillingness to extend ...

Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England: 1558-1689.

Journal of Church and State;  March 22, 2002 ;     606 words ......volume The Development of Religious Toleration in England, 1558-1660 appeared over...historical and theoretical background to the Toleration Act of 1689, which accorded a limited degree of toleration to non-Anglican English Trinitarian...

On Toleration.(Review)

Journal of Church and State;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...On Toleration. By Michael Walzer. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997 126 pp. $16.50. Toleration, argues Walzer, sustains life itself because toleration makes possible the peaceful coexistence of people...

Rewriting Cromwell: Milton, Marvell, and negative liberty in the English...

CLIO;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......prose, a neglect matched by the misunderstanding of Milton's prose observed by other recent critics. (1) This situation...the same time, a more pragmatic, even Machiavellian Milton has taken his rightful place beside Joseph Mazzeo's...aristocratic forms of government, but also Marvell's un-Miltonic ...

How Milton's loss gave us Paradise; How Milton's lossScientists believe...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  January 20, 2008 ;     664 words ......succeeds magnificently inthree key respects: it illuminates Milton's life, his tumultuous times and thedazzling richness of his literary output. Milton's was a long life, spanning the age of Donne and Shakespeare...was also one thatwas exceptionally politically engaged. Milton had devoted a studious ...

Professor William B. Hunter, Bishop Burgess, and John Milton. (response to...

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  January 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......Burgess, Tout implies, was in his dotage when he published Milton Not the Author of the Lately Discovered Work De Doctrina...opponent of Catholic Emancipation: part of his case against Milton's authorship of the DDC was that it was insufficiently anti-Catholic. This was not a charge brought against ...

Literature and Dissent in Milton's England.(Book Review)

CLIO;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Literature and Dissent in Milton's England. By Sharon Achinstein. Cambridge: Cambridge...Stuart era by recasting it from Dryden's England to Milton's, from the royalist perspective to that of the religious...republican. The Restoration is, after all, when John Milton wrote his Paradise Lost (1667), Samson ...

Mark Canuel. Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830.(Book...

Studies in Romanticism;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Mark Canuel. Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830...65.00. Mark Canuel's genealogy of toleration (2) is a welcome addition to scholarly...Romantic period writing a discourse of toleration (3) that produced the liberal state...