The Long Truce

A. J. Conyers (1946-2004) was Professor of Theology at the George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. His previous books include, The Listening Heart: Vocation and the Crisis of Modern Culture (2001), The Eclipse of Heaven (1999), and The End: What the Gospels Say About the Last Things (1995).

Preface 1. The Cunning of History 2. The Ecumenical Impulse 3. A Feeling of Uncertainty 4. Thomas Hobbes and the Fears of Modernity 5. Pierre Bayle and the Modern Sanctity of the Individual 6. John Locke and the Politics of Toleration 7. The Triumph of Toleration 8. The Shadow Leviathan 9. Nihilism and the Catholic Vision 10. High Tolerance Notes Index

The Long Truce is a book to read and reread. -Donald Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University Conyers's book launches an engaging assault on one of the great sacred cows of modern political science and religious studies, the doctrine of toleration....this is a provocative work that ought to be read widely by undergraduates as well as graduate students in ethics and political science, not only for the genealogy of toleration that it offers but also for its constructive proposal. -- Religious Studies Review