Career of Toleration John Locke, Jonas Proast, and After

John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration is one of the canonical English-language texts in the history of the idea of toleration. Its publication in 1689 sparked a heated debate with Anglican cleric Jonas Proast, and in recent years the Locke-Proast controversy has attracted more attention than ever before. Richard Vernon provides a timely examination of John Locke's arguments in defence of A Letter Concerning Toleration and of their significance for modern political thought.