Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction John Locke: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Appendix A: Additional Writings on Toleration and Religion by Locke
- From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
- From The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)
Appendix B: Locke’s Contemporaries on Religious Toleration
- From William Penn, The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience Once More Briefly Debated and Defended (1670)
- From Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise (1670)
- From Pierre Bayle, A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14:23, “Compel them to come in, that my house may be full” (1686)
- From Samuel von Pufendorf, Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society (1687)
Appendix C: Locke and His Critics
- From Thomas Long, The Letter for Toleration Deciphered, and the Absurdity and Impiety of an Absolute Toleration Demonstrated (1689)
- From Jonas Proast, The Argument of the Letter Concerning Toleration, Briefly Considered and Answered (1690)
- From Philanthropus [John Locke], A Second Letter Concerning Toleration (1690)
Suggestions for Further Reading
