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Control # 1 2018962291
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20200824114426.0
Fixed Data 8 181023s2019 ctu b 001 0 eng d
LC Card 10    $a 2018962291
ISBN 20    $a9780300226638$q(hardcover)
ISBN 20    $a0300226632$q(hardcover)
Local Ctrl # 35    $a(OCoLC)on1055265186
Obsolete 39    $a323464$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aYDX$beng$cYDX$erda$dBDX$dOCLCQ$dERASA$dYUS$dYDXIT$dUTV$dOCLCF$dPTS$dDTM$dIBI$dLNT$dDLC
LC Call 50 00 $aBV741$b.W463 2019
Dewey Class 82 04 $a233.7$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aWilken, Robert Louis,$d1936-$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aLiberty in the things of God :$bthe Christian origins of religious freedom /$cRobert Louis Wilken.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew Haven, CT,$bYale University Press,$c[2019]
Phys Descrpt 300    $ax, 236 pages ;$c24 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aEndowed with freedom -- A Christian society -- The two swords: Reformation in Germany -- Custodians of both tables: Switzerland -- Two religions in one city: France -- Freedom of worship: The Netherlands -- Sturdy piety: Catholics in England -- Seeking faith's pure shrine: English separatists -- Liberty necessary unto human nature.
Abstract 520    $aIn the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external force, laying a foundation on which later generations would build. Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin. They took form before the Enlightenment through the labors of men and women of faith who believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. This provocative book, drawing on writings from the early Church as well as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reminds us of how "the meditations of the past were fitted to affairs of a later day."
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aFreedom of religion.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aLiberty$xReligious aspects$xChristianity.