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This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in more than half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history. Introduced with a survey of concepts and theory, it moves on to examine 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Protestant Theory o f Persecution 3. The Protestant Theory of Toleration 4. Elizabeth I and Protestant Unform ity, 1 5 5 8 —1 6 0 3 5. The Early Stuarts, 1 6 0 3 - 4 0 6. The Puritan Revolution, 1 6 4 0 - 6 0 7. The Restoration, 1 6 6 0 —8 8 8. 1 6 8 9 and the R ise o f Toleration Glossary Select Bibliography Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
John Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. He has a particular interest in the rich and complex history of Protestantism in Britain and America and his most recent edited volume is The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559- 1689 (2020). He was part of a team which published a five-volume critical edition of a major seventeenth-century memoir, Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696).
Zusammenfassung
Exploring an issue that is key to early modern political, religious and cultural history, and covering the period from 1558 to 1689, this work examines what tolerant means now and meant then, within a European context. It explores the development of the liberal tradition and the modern conscience.
