From Theology to History: French Religious Controversy and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: French Religious Controversy and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

Toutes ces belles contro erses Sur les religions di erses N'ont jamais produit aucun bien: Chacun s' anime pour la sienne; Et que fait-on pour la chretienne? On dispute, et l'on ne fait rien. - Saint-E remond, 1614-1703. This book asserts, contrary to Saint-E remond, that religious controversy on the eve of the Enlightenment was far from sterile or antichristian. In reconstructing a French religious debate of the era of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, it shows how the debate allowed ...