The travail of religious liberty
Subtitle: nine biographical studies
Publisher: Westminster Press
Published: 1951
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Freedom of religion; Christian biography
Description: Explains the struggle within the Christian Church to achieve religious liberty by telling, in popular biographical style, the story of the sincere men -- both persecutors and persecuted -- who took part in the struggle.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Persecution: Catholic and Protestant:; title: The peak of Catholic persecution: Thomas of Torquemada --; title: The peak of Protestant intolerance: John Calvin --; title: The victim of Protestant persecution: Michael Servetus -- -- pt. 2.; title: The toleration controversy of the sixteenth century: --; title: The remonstrator: Sébastien Castellio --; title: The heretic as hypocrite: David Joris --; title: The heretic as exile: Bernardino Ochino -- -- pt. 3. The freedom of the individual in the seventeenth century:; title: The bard of speech unbound: John Milton --; title: The seeker: Roger Williams --; title: Apologist for the Act of Toleration: John Locke.