With a Pure Conscience: Christian Liberty Before the Reformation

by Ian Christopher Levy

Offers new perspectives on freedom of conscience and religious liberty by tracing their origins to the Middle Ages, thereby challenging the common assumption that these core tenets of modernity were products of the Enlightenment

Deeply committed to the formation of a just and sacred society, medieval theologians and canon-ists developed sophisticated arguments in defense of religious liberty and freedom of conscience. They did so...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531510477
• ISBN13: 9781531510473
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 320 Pages