On the Duty to Keep Faith with Heretics - Sources in Early Modern Economics, Ethics, and Law - Martinus Becanus - Books - Clp Academic - 9781949011043 - December 20, 2019
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On the Duty to Keep Faith with Heretics - Sources in Early Modern Economics, Ethics, and Law

Martinus Becanus

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On the Duty to Keep Faith with Heretics - Sources in Early Modern Economics, Ethics, and Law

This work offers an extraordinary perspective on the early modern debates about toleration and the binding force of agreements between people of different Christian faiths. Drawing on principles of contract law developed by jurists and theologians from the School of Salamanca, the Jesuit controversialist Martinus Becanus (1563-1624) argues in favor of the duty to honor promises beyond confessional boundaries. Although hostile to religious freedom as a matter of principle, he acknowledges that a prince may have good reasons to grant exceptions. In particular circumstances the toleration of religious diversity may not only prevent greater evil, but also advance the greater good, especially by stimulating a kind of pious competition between confessional communities. This first English translation of Becanus's De fide haereticis servanda allows modern scholars to discover a major work of one of the most prominent advocates of a permission concept of tolerance in the early modern period.


180 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 20, 2019
ISBN13 9781949011043
Publishers Clp Academic
Pages 180
Dimensions 218 × 138 × 11 mm   ·   235 g
Language English  
Translator Buhre, Isabelle