8 sentences with “toleration”

While their Bourbon monarchy was restored in France, there was now an elected parliament, religious toleration and relaxed censorship.

He was finally assassinated (after 18 previous attempts) in 1610 by a Catholic fanatic, but with his death the pragmatic need for toleration was accepted even by most French Catholics.

A Concordat (agreement) with the Pope in 1801 restored the position of the Catholic Church in France, although it did not return Church property, nor did it abandon the principle of toleration for religious minorities.

Nowhere was there the slightest notion of "religious toleration" in the modern sense - both sides were convinced that any and all who disagreed with their spiritual views were doomed to an eternity of suffering in hell.

There were exceptions, especially in the Holy Roman Empire, but beliefs clearly hardened in the course of the sixteenth century: what toleration had existed in the first decades of the Reformation era tended to disappear.

Locke was also a great advocate of religious toleration; he even had the audacity to point out that people tended to be of whatever religion prevailed in their family and social context, so it was ridiculous for anyone to claim exclusive access to religious truth.

In 1598 he issued the Edict of Nantes which officially propagated toleration of the Huguenots, allowing them to build a parallel state within France with walled cities, armies and an official Huguenot church, but forbidding them entry into Paris and participation in the royal government.

In 1685 Louis XIV officially revoked the Edict of Nantes that his grandfather had created to give toleration to the Huguenots, and offered them the choice of conversion to Catholicism or exile. While many converted, more than 200,000 fled to parts of Germany, the Netherlands, England and America.