Last month, St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland announced the discovery, right in their own Greenfield Library, of a previously unpublished manuscript titled “Reasons for tolerating Papists ...

TRENTO, Italy—Just two years after the Catholic Church completed its repudiation of Protestant doctrine at the Council of Trent (1545-1563), an Italian convert to Protestantism jumped into the fray. A ...

In his Lyceum Address, a young Abraham Lincoln praised the Founding Fathers for creating “a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, ...

Given a list of familiar virtues, tolerance is unlikely to be the one most readily associated with Christianity. And with good reason: one does not have to be an expert in church history to know that ...

It is increasingly felt by many that we are moving towards a fiercely conflict-ridden world in which toleration is needed badly. But what does toleration mean? Perhaps it is best to begin by making a ...

At times like this it is worth considering and reflecting upon the history and principles of religious toleration. We often lost sight of just how demanding and challenging calls for religious ...

When the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization came out suggesting that the Supreme Court was prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade one of my students said: “Since I ...

300 years ago, Pierre Bayle offered a Protestant defense of religious pluralism. Recent months have brought fearsome reminders of the destructive force of corrupted religion. In the Swat region of ...

With the theoretical impossibility of forming a coalition following the latest Israeli elections, some dead ends are more artificial than others. Along these lines, both Avigdor Liberman and Yair ...