A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings - (Thomas Hollis Library) by John Locke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This volume opens with Locke's <em>Letter Concerning Toleration</em> (1689) and also contains his earlier <em>Essay Concerning Toleration</em> (1667), extracts from the <em>Third Letter for Toleration</em> (1692), and a large body of his briefer essays and memoranda on this theme. As editor Mark Goldie writes in the introduction, <em>A Letter Concerning Toleration</em> "was one of the seventeenth century's most eloquent pleas to Christians to renounce religious persecution."</p> <p>This Liberty Fund edition provides the first fully annotated modern edition of <em>A Letter Concerning Toleration</em>, offering the reader explanatory guidance to Locke's rich reservoir of references and allusions.</p> <p><strong>David Womersley</strong> is Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is <em>Divinity and State</em>.</p> <p><strong>Mark Goldie</strong> is Reader in British Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Reference and Research Book News</i><br /> April 2011<br /><br /> In an era of renewed religious extremism, when theological conflicts can and do lead to bloodshed on a widespread scale, the philosophy of John Locke remains ever timely. This collection centers on his<b></b><i>Letter Concerning Toleration</i>, composed in 1685, in which Locke, himself a devout Christian, calls on his fellow believers to disavow religious bigotry. It also includes a number of Locke's other works, including his <i>Essay Concerning Toleration, </i> as well as sections from his <i>Third Letter for Toleration</i> and numerous other writings and memoranda. According to the publisher, it is the first time Locke's writings on toleration have been collected and presented in a fully annotated edition.<br /><br /><i>Studies in English Literature<br /></i>Summer 2011<br /><br /> John Locke's <i>A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings</i> (edited by Mark Goldie for the Liberty Fund). . . . will be useful for those teaching eighteenth-century religion, literature, and culture, as it also contains a judicious selection of Locke's brief essays and memoranda on the theme of religious toleration. Goldie's is the "first fully annotated edition" of this important text and ought to be attractive to both scholars and students.<br>
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