UID:
almafu_9960117205802883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 413 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-55201-2
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1-316-55397-3
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1-316-40858-2
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in law and Christianity
Content:
In Volume 1 of Christianity and Freedom, leading historians uncover the unappreciated role of Christianity in the development of basic human rights and freedoms from antiquity through today. These include radical notions of dignity and equality, religious freedom, liberty of conscience, limited government, consent of the governed, economic liberty, autonomous civil society, and church-state separation, as well as more recent advances in democracy, human rights, and human development. Acknowledging that the record is mixed, scholars document how the seeds of freedom in Christianity antedate and ultimately undermine later Christian justifications and practices of persecution. Drawing from history, political science, and sociology, this volume will become a standard reference work for historians, political scientists, theologians, students, journalists, business leaders, opinion shapers, and policy makers.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2016).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- The religious freedom research project -- Table of contents -- Contributing authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Christianity and Freedom -- The Volumes -- The Chapters -- Notes -- 1 The Roots of Religious Freedom in Early Christian Thought -- The First Christian Response to Persecution -- The Emergence of Arguments against Religious Persecution among the Church Fathers: Justin Martyr and Athenagoras -- The Articulation of a Right to Religious Freedom in the Latin Fathers: Tertullian ad Lactantius -- Taking Stock of the First Enlightenment -- Postscript: The Second Enlightenment Tips Its Hat to the First -- Notes -- 2 The Christian Roots of Religious Freedom -- The Beginnings -- A Christian Society -- Conscience -- The Reformation -- Baptists -- Roger Williams -- John Locke -- Colonial America -- Notes -- 3 Lactantius on Religious Liberty and His Influence on Constantine -- Notes -- 4 Augustine and Religious Freedom -- Notes -- 5 Christianity and the Roots of Human Dignity in Late Antiquity -- Rights and Enlightenment -- Approaching the Origins of Human Rights -- Universalism, Freedom, and Dignity in Classical Antiquity -- Universalism, Freedom, and Dignity in Late Antiquity -- Conclusions: Dignity, Rights, and History -- Notes -- 6 Liberty of Conscience and Freedom of Religion in the Medieval Canonists and Theologians -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- The Church's Position toward Jews and Other Non-Christians -- The Treatment of Heretics within Christian Society -- Inquisition and Trial Procedure -- Rights and Conscience -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Faith, Liberty, and the Defense of the Poor -- The Ecclesial Provenance of Natural Rights -- A Bishop of the Poor in the New World -- Faith, Dignity, and Human Rights.
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Liberty from Coercion: The Religious Rights of Christians and Infidels -- Rescuing the Innocent and Oppressed from Death -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Calvinist Contributions to Freedom in Early Modern Europe -- Introduction -- John Calvin and Geneva -- Early Views -- Later Views -- The Marian Exiles, Theodore Beza, and the Right to Resist Tyranny -- Johannes Althusius and Dutch Calvinism -- John Milton and English Calvinism -- Final Reflections -- Notes -- 9 Constitutional Protection of the Freedom of Conscience in Colonial America -- Introduction -- "Full Liberty of Conscience" in Massachusetts Bay -- Roger Williams and the Rhode Island Experiment -- William Penn and the Pennsylvania Experiment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 Christianity and Freedom in the American Founding -- Two of America's Mottoes -- Contract Meets Covenant -- The Right of Revolution Meets the Epistle to the Romans -- Enlightenment Meets Awakening -- Natural Equality Meets the Imago Dei -- Practical Diversity Meets Religious Claims to Truth -- Modern Political Realism Meets the Fall -- Conclusion: The Alliance of Christian Faith and Enlightenment Reason -- Notes -- 11 Vibrant Christian Pluralism and the Evolution and Defense of Religious Liberty in America -- Notes -- 12 Orthodox Christian Contributions to Freedom -- The Grammar of Freedom in Orthodox Christian Teachings: Byzantine Building Blocks -- Orthodoxy on War in Byzantium and the Implications for Teachings on Freedom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 13 Christianity -- Executive Summary -- Text -- Conceptual Foundations -- 1800-1970 -- France -- Belgium -- The Netherlands -- Germany -- England -- The United States -- The Vatican (and Italy) -- 1970-the Present -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 14 Protestant Missionaries and the Centrality of Conversion Attempts for the... -- The Development and Spread of Religious Liberty.
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Social Consequences of Religious Liberty -- Conversion and Mass Education -- Conversion and Mass Printing -- Conversion and Autonomous Civil Society -- Conversion and Social Reform -- Conversion and Health -- Conversion and Economic Freedom -- Conversion and Economic Development and Political Democracy -- Notes -- 15 God and Freedom -- Two Assumptions -- The Old Testament -- Creating Free Beings -- God's Activity as Liberation -- The Code of Free People -- Liberty for the Slaves -- Free Discussion with God -- Expecting -- The New Testament -- Freedom as an End in Itself -- History as the Realm of Liberty -- Conclusion -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-12458-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-56183-3
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316408582
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