Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America

Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America
ISBN-10
067424723X
ISBN-13
9780674247239
Category
History
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2021
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Michael D. Breidenbach

Description

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.

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