"And yet, if one looks more closely at Locke’s famous 1689 Letter Concerning Toleration—and the peculiar circumstances in which it was produced—what emerges is an unfamiliar vision of “Lockean” toleration as a project of religious and political establishment, one focused on accommodating some (albeit limited) dissent from public orthodoxy, while also promoting a more reasonable, liberal, and tolerant approach to religion supported by the state."
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