1st Edition
Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment Atheist’s Progress
By Eric MacPhail
Copyright 2020
164 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. The main authors featured are Desiderius Erasmus, Sebastian Castellio, Jean Bodin, Michel de Montaigne, Dirck... Read more
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
Biography
Eric MacPhail is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Indiana University.
