Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment: Atheist's Progress

ISBN-13: 9781032084855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Eric MacPhail

Opis

This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

Spis treści

Introduction: Atheism Before Enlightenment  1. The Theory of Tolerance from Erasmus to Castellio  2. French Wars of Religion  3. The Dutch Revolt  4. Atheism and Orthodoxy in Gisbertus Voetius  5. Atheism and Pluralism in the Theophrastus redivivus  6. Pierre Bayle Beyond Tolerance.  Epilogue: The Afterlife of Bayle’s Paradox

O autorze

Eric MacPhail is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Indiana University.