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God, Locke, and liberty : the struggle for religious freedom in the west / Joseph Loconte.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, MD : Lex, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780739186909
  • 0739186906
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: God, Locke, and libertyDDC classification:
  • 261.7/2 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1610 .L83 2014eb
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  • online - EBSCO
  • BF 4186
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Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A 'Secret Stream' of toleration : Christian Humanism and the Crisis of the West -- 'A Thing Called Liberty' : The Great Debate over Freedom of Conscience -- 'Bright Enough for All Our Purposes' : Locke and the English Reformers -- 'The Heirs of Erasmus' : Locke and the Dutch Reformers -- 'The Captain of Our Salvation' : Toleration and the Politics of Jesus -- Conclusion: 'Let Us Not Devour Each Other' : The Lockean Vision of a Just Society -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: <Span style=""font-style:italic;"">God, Locke, and Liberty argues that John Locke based his most famous defense of religious freedom on a radical reinterpretation of the life and teachings of Jesus. In a fresh and provocative analysis of Locke's <span style=""font-style:italic;"">A Letter Concerning Toleration, this new intellectual history examines the importance of the spiritual reform movement known as Christian humanism to Locke's bracing vision of a tolerant and pluralistic society
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)710119

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">God, Locke, and Liberty argues that John Locke based his most famous defense of religious freedom on a radical reinterpretation of the life and teachings of Jesus. In a fresh and provocative analysis of Locke's <span style=""font-style:italic;"">A Letter Concerning Toleration, this new intellectual history examines the importance of the spiritual reform movement known as Christian humanism to Locke's bracing vision of a tolerant and pluralistic society

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A 'Secret Stream' of toleration : Christian Humanism and the Crisis of the West -- 'A Thing Called Liberty' : The Great Debate over Freedom of Conscience -- 'Bright Enough for All Our Purposes' : Locke and the English Reformers -- 'The Heirs of Erasmus' : Locke and the Dutch Reformers -- 'The Captain of Our Salvation' : Toleration and the Politics of Jesus -- Conclusion: 'Let Us Not Devour Each Other' : The Lockean Vision of a Just Society -- Bibliography -- Index.