Christianity and Freedom: Volume 1, Historical Perspectives
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Christianity and Freedom: Volume 1, Historical Perspectives

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Christianity and Freedom: Volume 1, Historical Perspectives

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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 policymakers.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
Topic
Law
eBook ISBN
9781316553978
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. The religious freedom research project
  7. Table of contents
  8. Contributing authors
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction Christianity and Freedom
  11. 1 The Roots of Religious Freedom in Early Christian Thought
  12. 2 The Christian Roots of Religious Freedom
  13. 3 Lactantius on Religious Liberty and His Influence on Constantine
  14. 4 Augustine and Religious Freedom
  15. 5 Christianity and the Roots of Human Dignity in Late Antiquity
  16. 6 Liberty of Conscience and Freedom of Religion in the Medieval Canonists and Theologians
  17. 7 Faith, Liberty, and the Defense of the Poor
  18. 8 Calvinist Contributions to Freedom in Early Modern Europe
  19. 9 Constitutional Protection of the Freedom of Conscience in Colonial America
  20. 10 Christianity and Freedom in the American Founding
  21. 11 Vibrant Christian Pluralism and the Evolution and Defense of Religious Liberty in America
  22. 12 Orthodox Christian Contributions to Freedom
  23. 13 Christianity
  24. 14 Protestant Missionaries and the Centrality of Conversion Attempts for the...
  25. 15 God and Freedom
  26. Index

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