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Roman Politics, Familiar Yet Foreign: A Conversation with Jed Atkins

Roman Politics, Familiar Yet Foreign: A Conversation with Jed Atkins
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Liberalism and the Christian Origins of Tolerance

Tolerance is usually regarded as “the quintessential liberal value.” This position is supported by a standard liberal history that views religious toleration as emerging from the post-Reformation wars of religion as the solution to the problem of religious violence. Requiring the separation of church from state, tolerance was secured by giving the state the sole authority to punish religious violence and to protect the individual freedoms of conscience and religion. This standard liberal history exerts a powerful hold on the modern imagination: it undergirds several important recent accounts of liberal tolerance and virtually every major study of tolerance in the ancient world. Nevertheless, this familiar narrative distorts our understanding of tolerance’s premodern origins, unduly restricts the language available to us to speak about tolerance, and impoverishes present-day debates. In the lecture, Professor Atkins will illustrate these claims by showing how the standard liberal ....

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