Religious persecution in England by Matthew James Gray
October 25, 2018
Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/10/2018
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Location
Online
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Matthew James Gray recently completed his doctorate on looking at religious toleration and persecution in seventeenth-century England. In this talk, he will share some of the things he learned during his studies. Specifically, Matt argues that the dynamics of toleration were always multi-dimensional. It wasn’t just that the government had to decide whether to tolerate religious minorities; toleration and intolerance were occurring in various directions, including between the various religious groups themselves. Matt will also explore
- the attitudes of the persecutors,
- whether they were absolutists or relativists,
- “the cycle of intolerance”, and
- relevance to today.
Matt Gray
Matthew James Gray is a Church history and theology lecturer at Tabor College and also writes in Wondering Fair, which is an online apologetics magazine.
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