TY - BOOK ID - 8185328 TI - Natural law and toleration in the early enlightenment AU - Parkin, Jonathan Bruce AU - Stanton, Timothy AU - British academy.. Conference (2007 : London) PY - 2013 VL - 186 SN - 9780197265406 0197265405 PB - Oxford: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Tolérance KW - Liberté religieuse KW - Christianisme KW - Natural law KW - History of philosophy KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - Toleration KW - Religious tolerance KW - Religion and state KW - Freedom of religion KW - Enlightenment KW - Natural theology KW - History KW - Christianity KW - Congresses KW - Christianisme. KW - Toleration - Europe - History - 18th century - Congresses KW - Religious tolerance - Christianity - History - 17th century - Congresses KW - Religious tolerance - Christianity - History - 18th century - Congresses KW - Religion and state - Europe - History - 18th century - Congresses KW - Religion and state - Europe - History - 17th century - Congresses KW - Freedom of religion - Europe - History - Congresses KW - Natural law - History - Congresses KW - Enlightenment - Congresses KW - Natural theology - Congresses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8185328 AB - The early enlightenment has been seen as an epoch-making period in the development of modern Europe, marking the beginnings of the transition from a 'religious' to an essentially 'secular' understanding of human relations and generating in the process new accounts of the relationship between religion and politics, in which the idea of toleration figured centrally. In this volume of essays, leading scholars in the field challenge that view and explore the ways in which some of the most important discussions of toleration in the western tradition were shaped by understandings of natural theology and natural law. Far from representing a shift to non-religious ways of thinking about the world, the essays reveal the extent to which early enlightenment discussions of toleration presupposed a world-view in which God-given natural law established the boundaries between church and state and provided the primary point of reference for understanding claims to religious freedom. ER -