David J. B. Trim

Reformation, Tolerance, and Persecution

Editors' note: This is the fifth and final article in a series on the history of Christian persecution…

November 01 2011
The Emergence of Toleration
Part Four in a Series
July 01 2011
Tough Love
Part Three in a Series
May 01 2011
The Medieval Not Quite Reformed
Part Two In a Series
March 01 2011
The Christian Persecutory Impulse
There are many different forms of religious intolerance, and over the centuries, many faiths have been persecuted. In the Western context, however, it is the persecution of Christians, by Christians, especially in the two centuries after the Reformation, that is most important.
January 01 2011
A Turning Point
Part Five in a Series
November 01 2010
Christian Versus Muslim

Part Four in a Series

September 01 2010
The European Holy Wars

Part Three in a Series

July 01 2010
The Reformation and Wars of Religion

Part Two in a Series

May 01 2010
Religious Wars and Religious Freedom: A Troubled History
Although today Western society generally accepts that freedom of religious belief and expression is an innate human right, that position emerged only after centuries of religious intolerance and persecution, and centuries of interreligious hatred so extreme that it frequently resulted in wars of religion.
March 01 2010
Reformation Achieved
The English Reformation and Religious Freedom: PART IV
July 01 2009
Reformation and Counter Reformation
The English Reformation and Religious Freedom: PART III
May 01 2009
The Beginnings of Religious Diversity
The English Reformation and Religious Freedom: PART II
March 01 2009
The Break From Rome

The English Reformation and the Origins of Religious Diversity and Religious Freedom.

January 01 2009
Tumults, Riots, and Seditions

The European wars of religion, which followed the Reformation and raged roughly from the early mid-sixteenth…

May 01 2007
A Moral Vision

One of the great puzzles to foreign observers of the U.S. political and religious scene is how an overtly…

January 01 2007
Oliver Cromwell

The intolerant inheritance of America’s religious extreme.

November 01 2006