The History of Civil Tolerance

How States have treated religion, from the Christian Emperors and the barbarian kings through the Reformation and the wars of religion to the abstract principles of the French Revolution and the present day.

The works themselves ask 36 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

In the index as Heresy · Tolerance · French Revolution, the · Inquisition, the · Tolerance, civil · Tolerance, the dogma of · Bayle · Calvin · Cathari, the · Conscience · Dogma · Frederic II · Middle Ages, the · Princes · Protestants · Reformation, the · Spain · Stake, the · Thomasius · Torture · Boniface VIII · Capital punishment · England · Gregory IX

In the manuals

Tolerance

Arthur Vermeersch, S.J. — 289 passages

Pt. II, Second Section: Civil Tole…, Chapter II: Civil Tolerance Down to the Sixteenth Century, nn. ¶431, ¶432, ¶433, ¶434, ¶435, ¶442, ¶447, ¶450, ¶451, ¶455, ¶465, ¶466, ¶470, ¶471, ¶473, ¶474, ¶475, ¶476, ¶477, ¶478, ¶481, ¶482, ¶487, ¶489, ¶490, ¶494, ¶495, ¶496, ¶499, ¶500, ¶503, ¶504, ¶507, ¶508, ¶513, ¶514, ¶517, ¶518, ¶519, ¶523, ¶524, ¶529, ¶532, ¶533, ¶534, ¶536, ¶537, ¶543, ¶545, ¶547, ¶549, ¶550, ¶551, ¶557, ¶558, ¶559, ¶563, ¶567, ¶570, ¶571, ¶575, ¶584, ¶585, ¶587, ¶588, ¶589, ¶593, ¶597, ¶601, ¶602, ¶603, ¶604, ¶605, ¶607, ¶608, ¶609, ¶610, ¶613, ¶614, ¶615, ¶619, ¶625, ¶627, ¶628, ¶629, ¶630, ¶631, ¶632, ¶634, ¶638, ¶642, ¶643, ¶644, ¶645, ¶648, ¶649, ¶650, ¶652, ¶653, ¶654, ¶661, ¶666, ¶667, ¶676, ¶677, ¶678, ¶681, ¶682, ¶683, ¶687, ¶688 & ¶689 (112 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Second Section: Civil Tole…, Chapter III: Civil Tolerance From the Reformation to the French Revolution, nn. ¶690, ¶691, ¶693, ¶697, ¶705, ¶706, ¶708, ¶709, ¶711, ¶712, ¶713, ¶714, ¶717, ¶718, ¶720, ¶721, ¶722, ¶724, ¶725, ¶726, ¶729, ¶730, ¶731, ¶732, ¶733, ¶734, ¶738, ¶739, ¶743, ¶744, ¶745, ¶746, ¶751, ¶752, ¶753, ¶754, ¶755, ¶756, ¶757, ¶758, ¶759, ¶760, ¶763, ¶770, ¶776, ¶777, ¶788, ¶789, ¶798, ¶799, ¶800, ¶807, ¶808, ¶809, ¶818, ¶819, ¶825, ¶826, ¶827, ¶833, ¶834, ¶835, ¶839, ¶846, ¶847, ¶848, ¶855, ¶856, ¶857, ¶858, ¶862, ¶863, ¶864, ¶865, ¶866, ¶868, ¶869, ¶870, ¶873, ¶874, ¶875 & ¶876 (82 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Second Section: Civil Tole…, Chapter IV: Civil Tolerance of the Present Day, nn. ¶881, ¶882, ¶883, ¶884, ¶885, ¶886, ¶889, ¶892, ¶893, ¶945, ¶946, ¶947, ¶948, ¶949, ¶950, ¶952, ¶953, ¶954, ¶960 & ¶961 (20 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vermeersch, Tolerance, Third Part: Corollaries an…, First Section: Doctrinal Questions, nn. ¶1216, ¶1217, ¶1218, ¶1219, ¶1220, ¶1221, ¶1222, ¶1225, ¶1226, ¶1227, ¶1228, ¶1229, ¶1230, ¶1233, ¶1234, ¶1235, ¶1236, ¶1237, ¶1238, ¶1239, ¶1240, ¶1244 & ¶1245 (23 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vermeersch, Tolerance, Third Part: Corollaries an…, Second Section: Historical View, nn. ¶1270, ¶1271, ¶1272, ¶1273, ¶1274, ¶1275, ¶1276, ¶1278, ¶1279, ¶1281, ¶1286, ¶1287, ¶1288, ¶1290, ¶1291, ¶1292, ¶1295, ¶1296, ¶1299, ¶1300, ¶1301, ¶1302, ¶1303, ¶1304, ¶1305, ¶1307, ¶1308, ¶1309, ¶1314, ¶1315, ¶1316, ¶1317, ¶1318, ¶1319, ¶1321, ¶1325, ¶1326, ¶1332, ¶1333, ¶1334, ¶1339, ¶1340, ¶1341, ¶1342, ¶1343, ¶1344, ¶1345, ¶1348, ¶1349, ¶1351, ¶1352 & ¶1353 (52 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Civil authority and the duties of citizens — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910) · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Koch–Preuss · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Rickaby, Moral Philosophy · The Roman Catechism and 4 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)