Introduction: Dual allegiances -- Part I. Subjects: Papist royalists -- Damnable doctrines -- The Calvert Code -- Part II. Revolutionaries: Locke's Intolerables -- No Papists -- Sovereign jealousies -- Part III. Citizens: Constitutional liberties -- Republican Catholics -- Conclusion: An American creed.
Summary:
"Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradition. Suspected of dual loyalty, colonial American Catholics drew on the medieval doctrine of conciliarism to declare independence from the pope. Conciliarism inspired their push for toleration, shaping the nation at large"-- Provided by publisher.
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