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Title: The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit by A. J. Conyers ISBN: 1-890626-36-8 Publisher: Spence Pub Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Original, scholarly, fascinating, and iconoclastic
Comment: In The Long Truce: How Toleration Made The World Safe For Power And Profit, A.J. Conyers (professor at the George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University, Waco, Texas) reveals how the new, comprehensive, jealous, and demanding nation-states of early modern Europe propagated a novel version of toleration based on indifference to all values other than political power and material prosperity. By dissolving the loyalties that had previously bound European men to their church, family, and other intermediate institutions, toleration produced the modern "bi-polar society" in which the isolated citizen confronts the unmediated power of the state. In its modern form, toleration evolved not as a virtue, but as a strategy for the relentless imposition of secularism in the service of power and profit. Original, scholarly, fascinating, iconoclastic, Professor Conyers' The Long Truce is stimulating, informative, iconoclastic, "reader friendly", and a very highly recommended addition to any personal or academic reading list or reference collection in European social history, economic history, and political development.

Rating: 5
Summary: a good work of scholarship that is also a great read
Comment: The subject is tolerance. What does the doctrine of tolerance mean, from what intellectual sources does this doctrine derive, what are the unintended consequences of tolerance? A.J. Conyers weaves an intriguing story around these questions. I recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding how a great-sounding idea like tolerance can run amuck.

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