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A distinction began to develop between civil tolerance, concerned with "the policy of the state towards religious dissent"., [48] and ecclesiastical tolerance, concerned with the degree of diversity tolerated within a particular church. [49]
Goldie asserts that Locke was opposed not to Catholicism as such but antinomianism, the belief that ordinary moral laws are superseded by religious truth. [18] Scott Sowerby also claims that Locke left open the possibility that Catholics could be tolerated if they adopted tolerant principles and rejected political allegiance to the Pope. [19]
The Toleration Act 1688 [1] [a] (1 Will. & Mar. c. 18), also referred to as the Act of Toleration or the Toleration Act 1689, [3] was an Act of the Parliament of England.Passed in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, it received royal assent on 24 May 1689.
The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was the first law in North America requiring religious tolerance for Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City in St. Mary's County, Maryland. It created one of the pioneer statutes passed by the legislative body ...
Roman Religion Edict of Toleration of Serdica, that established Christianity as a Religio licita. An edict of toleration is a declaration, made by a government or ruler, and states that members of a given religion will not suffer religious persecution for engaging in their traditions' practices. Edicts may imply tacit acceptance of a state ...
Protestants were not tolerated throughout most of Europe until the Peace of Augsburg of 1555 approved Lutheranism as an alternative for Roman Catholicism as a state religion of various states within the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Calvinism was not recognized until the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. Other states, such as France, made ...
The tolerated religions, however, were allowed to have congregations no larger than 100 people in a private home. If a certain sect had more than 100 families living in an area, they were allowed to build a church only if the church did not have a direct entrance from the street and had no visible appearance of being a church.
[6] [7] Whether or not there was a formal 'Edict of Milan' is no longer really debated among scholars, who generally reject the story as it has come down in church history. [8] [1] The version found in Lactantius is not in the form of an edict. [7]