A Letter Concerning Toleration Audio. Locke's work appeared amidst a fear that Catholicism might be taking over England. In this "letter" addressed to an anonymous "Honored Sir" (actually Locke's close friend Philip von Limborch, who published it without.
John Locke's subtle and influential defense of reli.
This volume contains A Letter Concerning Toleration, excerpts of the Third Letter, An Essay on Toleration, and various fragments.
In this "letter" addressed to an anonymous "Honored Sir" (actually Locke's close friend Philip von Limborch, who published it without. For Locke, the only way a Church gains genuine converts is through persuasion, not violence. Locke wrote his Letter Concerning Toleration to his Dutch friend Philip von Limborch while he was living as an exile in the Dutch Republic, which had been founded as a secular state that would tolerate religious differences.