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The Struggle for Religious Liberty1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Roland H. Bainton
Roland H. Bainton
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Yale Divinity School
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A sketch of the struggle for religious liberty during the course of the last four hundred years will be attempted in this paper. Attention will first be focussed on the theories and factors affecting persecution and tolerance on the part of both Catholics and Protestants. Then the administrative aspects of the subject will be considered alike from the broader standpoint of the structure of the church and of the state and from the more specific angle of the handling of dissent by political authority. Finally brief consideration will be devoted to residual and perennial problems of constraint and freedom.

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Church History , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 1941, pp. 95 - 124
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1941

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