A dirty word? The Christian development of the traditional conception of toleration in Augustine, Aquinas, and John Owen
| dc.coverage | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54046-3_2 | |
| dc.creator | Svensson, Manfred | |
| dc.date | 2020 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 05-01-2026 18:13 | |
| dc.date.available | 05-01-2026 18:13 | |
| dc.description | <p>As the first Christian theologian to write a defense of the use of force against schismatics, Augustine of Hippo has played an important role in the history of intolerance. His vision of the church as a mixed body, however, is also central to Christian thinking about toleration. Shifting our attention from his influential ideas about the limits of toleration to the more fruitful terrain of the nature of toleration, this chapter focuses on the role that Augustine's understanding of evil has upon his understanding of toleration. The chapter next considers Aquinas' expansion of Augustine's ethics of toleration to the political realm, and finally John Owen's adaptation of this mentality to the increasingly plural early modern world.</p> | eng |
| dc.description | As the first Christian theologian to write a defense of the use of force against schismatics, Augustine of Hippo has played an important role in the history of intolerance. His vision of the church as a mixed body, however, is also central to Christian thinking about toleration. Shifting our attention from his influential ideas about the limits of toleration to the more fruitful terrain of the nature of toleration, this chapter focuses on the role that Augustine’s understanding of evil has upon his understanding of toleration. The chapter next considers Aquinas’ expansion of Augustine’s ethics of toleration to the political realm, and finally John Owen’s adaptation of this mentality to the increasingly plural early modern world. | spa |
| dc.identifier | https://investigadores.uandes.cl/en/publications/37029006-8db4-4a91-ad8f-d110248850fe | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Springer | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | |
| dc.source | Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration: Cross-Disciplinary Challenges to a Modern Myth, p.43-60. Springer. [ISBN 9783030540456] | |
| dc.subject | Aquinas | |
| dc.subject | Augustine | |
| dc.subject | Christianity | |
| dc.subject | John Owen | |
| dc.subject | Permission | |
| dc.subject | Toleration | |
| dc.title | A dirty word? The Christian development of the traditional conception of toleration in Augustine, Aquinas, and John Owen | eng |
| dc.type | Chapter | eng |
| dc.type | Capítulo | spa |