St. Anselm Institute - Past Public Lectures

 

Once upon a time, it was thought the sweet fruits of religious freedom and liberty of conscience were the great achievements of secular Enlightenment reformers, but we now know these ideas first emerged in and were cared for by a different set of workers who labored in the great fields of a different tradition. Join us for Professor Wilken's lecture and launch of his latest and most provocative book, Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale, April 2019).

 

In chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are not political in origin, but due, in fact, to the hard labors and authentic commitments of men and women of faith who earnestly believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. All are invited to attend.