Front matter — Vermeersch, Tolerance
Contents (as printed)
¶1.
- Preface — p. v
- The Tolerance of Jesus Christ — p. 1
- Preliminary: Definitions and Divisions — p. 5
- FIRST PART
- TOLERANCE IN PRIVATE LIFE
- Chapter I. Its Object, Value, and Conditions — p. 13
- Chapter II. Applications — p. 20
- SECOND PART
- TOLERANCE IN PUBLIC LIFE
- General View — p. 31
- FIRST SECTION: ECCLESIASTICAL TOLERANCE.
- I. The Fact of Religious Society — p. 34
- II. Doctrinal Intolerance — p. 37
- III. Disciplinary Intolerance — p. 40
- IV. Apostolic Tolerance or Intolerance — p. 45
- EXCURSUS ON THE COERCIVE POWER OF THE CHURCH, AND ESPECIALLY ON THE RIGHT OF THE SWORD.
- § 1. General Statement of the Case — p. 58
- § 2. The Church and the Right of the Sword — p. 63
- I. The Argument from Authority — p. 63
- II. The Argument from Tradition — p. 73
- III. The Argument from Reason — p. 85
- § 3. The Formula of the Church's Right to Punish — p. 100
- SECOND SECTION: CIVIL TOLERANCE.
- Chapter I. General Plan of this Section — p. 103
- I. Definitions — p. 103
- II. General View — p. 107
- Chapter II. Civil Tolerance down to the Sixteenth Century — p. 110
- § 1. Successive Policies in the Matter of Heresy — p. 110
- § 2. The Inquisition — p. 122
- § 3. What Heretics were Persecuted? — p. 155
- § 4. The Repression of Heresy considered from the True Point of View — p. 162
- § 5. What Authority made Heresy Punishable with Death? — p. 168
- Chapter III. Civil Tolerance from the Reformation to the French Revolution — p. 181
- Article I. Review of the Facts of this Period — p. 181
- Article II. Doctrines of the Same Period — p. 191
- § 1. Doctrines of Intolerance Criticized — p. 191
- § 2. Doctrines of Tolerance — p. 194
- I. Motives appealed to in Favour of the Dogma of Tolerance — p. 195
- II. Practical Conclusions of Systems of Tolerance — p. 207
- III. Criticism of Doctrines of Tolerance — p. 211
- Chapter IV. Civil Tolerance of the Present Day—Order of Argument — p. 217
- Article I. Civil Tolerance of the French Revolution: Doctrine and Facts — p. 218
- Article II. Doctrines since the French Revolution — p. 221
- I. Doctrines of Tolerance — p. 221
- II. Doctrines of Intolerance — p. 224
- Article III. Facts since the French Revolution — p. 233
- Article IV. Criticism of Doctrines and Facts — p. 237
- Chapter V. The Theory of Right Civil Tolerance — p. 246
- THIRD PART
- COROLLARIES AND QUESTIONS
- Introduction — p. 259
- FIRST SECTION: DOCTRINAL QUESTIONS.
- I. Different Kinds of Tolerance and Intolerance — p. 260
- II. The Penal Repression of Heresy — p. 268
- III. Consistency and Progress in the Theory of Tolerance — p. 279
- IV. Religion and Science — p. 283
- V. The Genesis of Civil Tolerance — p. 314
- VI. What Agreement is Possible? — p. 321
- SECOND SECTION: HISTORICAL VIEW.
- § 1. The Past — p. 329
- I. General Conclusions — p. 329
- II. The Inquisition in Particular — p. 338
- § 2. The Present and the Future — p. 340
- I. The Present — p. 340
- II. The Future — p. 344
- CONCLUSION
- Christianity, the Religion of Love — p. 350
- Bibliography — p. 363