Liberty in the Things of God

The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Church, Church & State, Philosophy, Religious, Church History
Cover of the book Liberty in the Things of God by Robert Louis Wilken, Yale University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Robert Louis Wilken ISBN: 9780300245493
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: April 9, 2019
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Robert Louis Wilken
ISBN: 9780300245493
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: April 9, 2019
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English

From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke
 
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.”

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke
 
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.”

More books from Yale University Press

Cover of the book The I. L. Peretz Reader by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book Jabotinsky by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book All Measures Short of War by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book In Nelson's Wake by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book My German Question by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book The Vampire by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book A Path in the Mighty Waters by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book Bishop von Galen by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book Italian Tales by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book The Recording Machine by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book The Breast Cancer Book by Robert Louis Wilken
Cover of the book German Phonetics and Phonology by Robert Louis Wilken
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy