Be kind to the Antichrist
Millenarianism and religious tolerance in the Edict of Pskov
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3944821 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Ostling (0009-0006-3481-1620, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 261-276 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000842980103000301 |
| OpenAlex | W2090861397 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Scholarship often draws an equation between millenarian religious belief and violent intolerance. This article attempts to partially reformulate our ideas of both millenarianism and tolerance through the contextualized exegesis of a single line from an early modern royal proclamation on tolerance. Millenarian themes are crucial to the understanding of toleration promulgated in the Edict of Pskov-proclaimed by Stefan Batory, elected monarch of the multi-religious Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Batory's association of "other-believers" with the Antichrist paradoxically leads him to a theory of religious pluralism
Commonwealth · Epistemology · Exegesis · History of religions · Millenarianism · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Proclamation · Religious pluralism · Scholarship · Theology · Toleration · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |