The Long Truce
Subtitle: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit
Edition: 1 Ed edition
Publisher: Spence Publishing Company
Published: April 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781890626365
Subjects: Religion - Church History; Politics/International Relations; General; Political Science; Toleration; Religious tolerance; Power (Social sciences); Christian Theology - Anthropology; Christianity - History - Social Issues; Christianity - Theology - Anthropology; Christianity; History
Description: "Reconsidering one of our central political dogmas, A. J. Conyers argues that the principle of toleration - as reformulated over the last four centuries - is not the bulwark of social harmony that it appears. In The Long Truce, he shows that toleration, by banishing questions of ultimate meaning from public life, has aided the consolidation of power in the state while debasing our politics and undermining social cohesion."--BOOK JACKET.