Our dear-bought liberty : Catholics and religious toleration in early America /
Breidenbach, Michael D.,1986-author.
"Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradition. Suspected of dual loyalty, colonial American Catholics drew on the medieval doctrine of conciliarism to declare independence from the pope. Conciliarism inspired their push for toleration, shaping the nation at large"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Dual allegiances -- Part I. Subjects: Papist royalists -- Damnable doctrines -- The Calvert Code -- Part II. Revolutionaries: Locke's Intolerables -- No Papists -- Sovereign jealousies -- Part III. Citizens: Constitutional liberties -- Republican Catholics -- Conclusion: An American creed.
"Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradition. Suspected of dual loyalty, colonial American Catholics drew on the medieval doctrine of conciliarism to declare independence from the pope. Conciliarism inspired their push for toleration, shaping the nation at large"--
Carroll, John, 1735-1815.
Catholic Church
Secularism
Conciliar theory.
Religious tolerance
Religious tolerance