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Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 (Hardcover)
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Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies In Modern History
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This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be
published in over half a century. The issues it deals with are key
to early modern political, religious and cultural history. The
seventeenth century is traditionally regarded as a period of
expanding and extended liberalism, when superstition and received
truth were overthrown. The book questions how far England moved
towards becoming a liberal society at that time and whether or not
the end of the century crowned a period of progress, or if one set
of intolerant orthodoxies had simply been replaced by another. The
book examines what toleration means now and meant then, explaining
why some early modern thinkers supported persecution and how a
growing number came to advocate toleration. Introduced with a
survey of concepts and theory, the book then studies 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. Persecution and
Toleration is a critical addition to the study of early modern
Britain and to religious and political history.
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