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Toleration of differing religious ideas exists in parts of the contemporary world, but it is still not clear how this came about. This book brings together experts in this field in order to attempt to map out the contours and features of the influence of these histories on early modern and modern conceptions of toleration.
JOHN CHRISTIAN LAURSEN is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Riverside. He is the author of The Politics of Skepticism in the Ancients, Montaigne, Hume, and Kant, editor of New Essays on the Political Thought of the Hugenots, and editor of Religious Toleration: "The Variety of Rites" from Cyrus to Defoe.
Introduction; J.C.Laursen Argument and Rhetoric against Heresy in Thomas Edward's Gangraena ; S.Basu Gabriel Naude's Apology for Great Men Suspected of Magic ; M.Horowitz Hobbes on Heresy; M.P.Thompson Between History and Politics: Limborch's Historia Inquisitionis ; L.Simonutti The Public Context of Heresy: Maimbourg, Byle, and Le Clerc; S.Jenkinson Francis Lee and the French Prophets: The History of Montanism ; S.Searl-Chapin The History of Heresey in Clandestine Philosophical Manuscripts; A.McKenna The Trinity as Heresy; M.Mulsow Two Jewish Heresies: Spinozism and Sabbatianism; R.Popkin Gibbon and the History of Heresy; J.G.A.Pocock Heinrich Corrodi's Critical History of Chiliasm ; S.Zurbuchen The Enlightened Orthodoxy of the Abbe Pluquet; P.Coleman Heresey in the Encyclopedie d'Yverdon; C.Donato The Abbe Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier and the History of Heresy; K.H.Doig
"...fourteen stimulating essays...of interest to scholars and graduate students working in early modern intellectual history." - Andrew C. Thompson, History: Reviews of New Books