Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradition. Suspected of dual loyalty, colonial American Catholics drew on the medieval doctrine of conciliarism to declare independence from the pope. Conciliarism inspired their push for toleration, shaping the nation at large.
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Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9780674258785 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 7812522 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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