The Truth About Tolerance

The Truth About Tolerance

Author: Brad Stetson

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2005-02-28

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780830827879

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Brad Stetson and Joseph G. Conti explore the use and misuse of the value of tolerance in academic circles and popular media, demonstrating that Christian conviction about religious truth provides the only secure basis for a tolerant society which promotes truth seeking.


The Intolerance of Tolerance

The Intolerance of Tolerance

Author: D. A. Carson

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0802831702

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Carson traces the subtle but enormous shift in the way we have come to understand tolerance over recent years--from defending the rights of those who hold different beliefs to affirming all beliefs as equally valid and correct. He looks back at the history of this shift and discusses its implications for culture today, especially its bearing on democracy, discussions about good and evil, and Christian truth claims. --from publisher description


Tolerance Among the Virtues

Tolerance Among the Virtues

Author: John R. Bowlin

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0691191697

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In a pluralistic society such as ours, tolerance is a virtue—but it doesn't always seem so. Some suspect that it entangles us in unacceptable moral compromises and inequalities of power, while others dismiss it as mere political correctness or doubt that it can safeguard the moral and political relationships we value. Tolerance among the Virtues provides a vigorous defense of tolerance against its many critics and shows why the virtue of tolerance involves exercising judgment across a variety of different circumstances and relationships—not simply applying a prescribed set of rules. Drawing inspiration from St. Paul, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, John Bowlin offers a nuanced inquiry into tolerance as a virtue. He explains why the advocates and debunkers of toleration have reached an impasse, and he suggests a new way forward by distinguishing the virtue of tolerance from its false look-alikes, and from its sibling, forbearance. Some acts of toleration are right and good, while others amount to indifference, complicity, or condescension. Some persons are able to draw these distinctions well and to act in accord with their better judgment. When we praise them as tolerant, we are commending them as virtuous. Bowlin explores what that commendation means. Tolerance among the Virtues offers invaluable insights into how to live amid differences we cannot endorse—beliefs we consider false, actions we think are unjust, institutional arrangements we consider cruel or corrupt, and persons who embody what we oppose.


The Limits of Tolerance

The Limits of Tolerance

Author: Denis Lacorne

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0231547048

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The modern notion of tolerance—the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good—emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of religious wars. First elaborated by philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire, religious tolerance gradually gained ground in Europe and North America. But with the resurgence of fanaticism and terrorism, religious tolerance is increasingly being challenged by frightened publics. In this book, Denis Lacorne traces the emergence of the modern notion of religious tolerance in order to rethink how we should respond to its contemporary tensions. In a wide-ranging argument that spans the Ottoman Empire, the Venetian republic, and recent controversies such as France’s burqa ban and the white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, The Limits of Tolerance probes crucial questions: Should we impose limits on freedom of expression in the name of human dignity or decency? Should we accept religious symbols in the public square? Can we tolerate the intolerant? While acknowledging that tolerance can never be entirely without limits, Lacorne defends the Enlightenment concept against recent attempts to circumscribe it, arguing that without it a pluralistic society cannot survive. Awarded the Prix Montyon by the Académie Française, The Limits of Tolerance is a powerful reflection on twenty-first-century democracy’s most fundamental challenges.


Tolerance

Tolerance

Author: Caroline Warman

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2016-01-04

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1783742038

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Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance was first published by the Société française d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University.


Christ and Culture Revisited

Christ and Culture Revisited

Author: D. A. Carson

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0802867383

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Called to live in the world, but not to be of it, Christians must maintain a balancing act that becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have become? In this award-winning book -- now in paperback and with a new preface -- D. A. Carson applies his masterful touch to that problem. After exploring the classic typology of H. Richard Niebuhr with its five Christ-culture options, Carson offers an even more comprehensive paradigm for informing the Christian worldview. More than just theoretical, Christ and Culture Revisited is a practical guide for helping Christians untangle current messy debates about living in the world.


The Difficulty of Tolerance

The Difficulty of Tolerance

Author: Thomas Scanlon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-06-26

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780521533980

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These essays in political philosophy by T. M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon explains how the powers of just institutions are limited by rights such as freedom of expression, and considers why these limits should be respected even when it seems that better results could be achieved by violating them. Other topics which are explored include voluntariness and consent, freedom of expression, tolerance, punishment, and human rights. The collection includes the classic essays 'Preference and Urgency', 'A Theory of Freedom of Expression', and 'Contractualism and Utilitarianism', as well as a number of other essays that have hitherto not been easily accessible. It will be essential reading for all those studying these topics from the perspective of political philosophy, politics, and law.


Monotheism and Tolerance

Monotheism and Tolerance

Author: Robert Erlewine

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2010-01-11

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0253221560

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Monotheism and Tolerance suggests a way to deal with the intractable problem of religiously motivated and justified violence.


His Mission

His Mission

Author: D. A. Carson

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2015-04-16

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1433543788

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With contributions from popular Bible teachers, including Tim Keller, Kevin DeYoung, John Piper, D. A. Carson, Crawford Loritts, Gary Millar, and Stephen Um, this collection of eight biblical expositions looks to the Gospel of Luke and its unique portrait of our Savior. Whether exploring the nature of Jesus’s divine sonship, his rejection by the religious and political rulers of his day, or his important teaching on the dangers of money, this volume will help readers grasp the overarching message of the book of Luke as they grow more familiar with its main focus: the blameless life, atoning death, and vindicating resurrection of Jesus Christ.