Some Jewish reflections on Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration.(John Locke's a Letter Concerning Toleration)

From: Cross Currents | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Cohen, Jonathan | Copyright information

One of the most provocative insights from the flood of punditry that followed the September 11th attacks came in October 2001 from Andrew Sullivan. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Sullivan suggested that the Muslim world has not reached the same understanding as the West about the need for church and state to be separate because it has had no historical experience parallel to the bitter religious wars that racked Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Sullivan further opine...

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