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The Christian Roots of Religious Freedom

[Hardback]

by Robert Louis Wilken

Author
Robert Louis Wilken
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Marquette University Press
Published
August 2014

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Religious freedom long pre-dates John Locke and his Enlightenment colleagues, as is widely thought, argues Wilken. He traces it back centuries to the writings of Christian apologists who, in the face of persecution, wrote to defend their right to practice the religion they wished without coercion. He cites the Edict of Milan, issued jointly in 312 by the Roman emperors Constantine in the west and Licinius in the east, which set forth a rationale that allowed all citizens to practice that form of piety each deemed best. Even two years earlier, he says, Galerius, co-emperor with Licinius, had ended the persecution of Christians, saying the policy did not make Christians return to the old gods, and it was better for them to worship Christian gods than no gods at all.