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A Letter Concerning Toleration (Epistola de tolerantia) by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, and it was immediately translated into other languages.
A Letter Concerning Toleration is an important essay by the English philosopher John Locke, originally written in Latin in 1685, that greatly influenced the development of the modern concept of the separation of church and state.
A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke. Recommended edition: A Letter Concerning Toleration, ed. James Tully (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983). Excerpt: I think indeed there is no nation under heaven, in which so much has already been said upon that subject, as ours.
The English philosopher John Locke wrote his Letter on Toleration (1686) in Latin and sent it to a friend who published it. We reproduce here, unmodernised, William Popple’s 1689 English translation.
- Caroline Warman
- 2016
It did not come into the world in order to establish outward pomp and ecclesiastical domination and violence, but to ground a life of goodness and piety. Anyone who wishes to enlist in Christ's church must, more than anything else, declare war on his own vices, on his own pride and lust.
John Locke (1632-1704) was the author of A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), An Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690), Two Treatises on Government (1690), and other works.
John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) is one of the most widely-read texts in the political theory of toleration, and a key text for the liberal tradition.
