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This dissertation presents a normative intellectual history of the development of religious toleration in the Latin West. In the Middle Ages, canon lawyers and theologians provided biblical justifications for tolerating unbelievers within their societies. During the crusades, ho…

This work seeks to explore the concept of religious toleration as it has been conceived by key thinkers at important junctures in the history of the West in the hopes of identifying some of the animating principles at work in societies confronted with religious difference and di…

This dissertation interrogates the quality of sincerity as it appears throughout John Locke’s work on religious toleration and Christian theology. Sincerity, and the framework it provides, offers a means to draw together his political and theological works, as well as to appreci…

At the heart of modern liberalism is an ideal of religious equality, according to which religious minorities should be granted the same civil and political rights as the religious majority. So basic is this ideal to modern liberalism that liberals often take it for granted. This…

Scholars have studied John Locke and have tried to discern whether his political teachings are derived from or at least consonant with the Bible. The divide in scholarly opinion suggests that more research is needed to determine upon what authority Locke bases his political teac…