Tolerance (Full Color Collectible Edition)

Author: (American) Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Toleration is a popular history book that has been a bestseller for nearly a century. The author, Van Loon, with his profound humanistic concern and the spirit of advocating freedom of thought, analyzes the arduous journey of humanity in seeking the right to think, outlining a magnificent history of human intellectual liberation. Through Van Loon's extremely famous "eye of toleration," we can rediscover and gain a deeper understanding of the complex and long history of politics, religion, culture, society, and humanity's pursuit of self-liberation over thousands of years. The conflicts and integration, persecution and counter-persecution in the history of religion have always been a complex and sensitive issue. Van Loon, with his sharp insight, seeks the underlying roots from the conflicts between different religious factions. In the end, he sees that historical religious reformers, under the guise of "religious reform," cruelly persecuted all innovative ideas that were unfavorable to their development. It is precisely this lack of spiritual toleration that led to the errors committed by their "enemies." Through Van Loon's "eye of toleration," it is not difficult to gain a clear outline of the development of religious history and all spiritual and cultural phenomena.