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A Letter Concerning Toleration
Book by John Locke
Title page of the first edition. | |
| Author | John Locke |
|---|---|
| Original&#;title | Epistola de tolerantia |
| Subject | Liberalism, Religion |
| Published | |
A Letter Concerning Toleration (Epistola de tolerantia) by John Locke was originally published in Its initial publication was in Latin, and it was immediately translated into other languages.
Locke's work appeared amidst a fear that Catholicism might be taking over England and responds to the problem of religion and government by proposing religious toleration as the answer. This "letter" is addressed to an anonymous "Honored Sir": this was Locke's close friend Philipp van Limborch, who published it without Locke's knowledge.[1]
Background
In the wake of the discovery of the Rye House Plot and Charles II's persecution of the Whigs, Locke fled England to Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic in September [2][3] Throughout his life, Locke was in