This collection of original essays by the nation's leading political theorists examines the origins of modernity, and considers the question of tolerance as a p

The result was a powerful current of skepticism with extraordinary consequences. Combined with late-seventeenth-century developments in other areas of thought a

This innovative collection points to the need for a reevaluation of the origins of toleration theory. Philosophers, intellectual historians, and political theor

Major intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern Enlightenment Europe.

The central thesis of this book is that skepticism was instrumental to the defense of orthodox religion and the development of the identity of the Church of Eng