Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America
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 fo...
| Résumé: | 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. Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- Introduction: Dual Allegiances -- I. Subjects -- 1. Papist Royalists -- 2. Damnable Doctrines -- 3. The Calvert Code -- II. Revolutionaries -- 4. Locke's Intolerables -- 5. No Papists -- 6. Sovereign Jealousies -- III. Citizens -- 7. Constitutional Liberties -- 8. Republican Catholics -- Conclusion: An American Creed -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-25878-5 |
