Voices for Tolerance: Struggle for Toleration

Voices for Tolerance
In an Age of Persecution

 on exhibit June 9 - October 30, 2004

The Struggle for Religious Toleration
Jacopo Aconcio (d. 1566)
Satans Strategems, or the devils cabinet- council discovered
London, 1648
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 Among the voices for toleration was Jacopo Aconcio. In his Satanae stratagemata libri octo [1565], Aconcio advocated freedom of religious thought and argued that religious conflict was in fact the work of the devil

The burning of the radical Spanish theologian and medical doctor Michael Servetus in Geneva on 27 October 1553 on the charge of denying the Christian Trinity galvanized some of the most influential voices for and against religious toleration in early modern Europe. Servetus' execution horrified many and permanently damaged the reputation of Jean Calvin, the leader of the Genevan reformed church.

Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution
 Exhibition Highlights

Humanists for Peace | The Reformation | The Struggle for Religious Toleration | The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day | Jews in Early Modern Europe | The Miseries of Religious War | Ambivalence towards Islam | Encountering Africans | Catholics in England | James I and Religious Toleration | The Puritan Revolution | Ireland | Debating Toleration in the Restoration | "Acts" of Toleration | Voices for Tolerance Amidst Acts of Hate

Exhibition Intro | Visiting the Folger



This page updated September 29, 2004