Author: Joe Barnhart
Joe Barnhart is at the University of North Texas, Department of Philosophy. He is a Contributing Editor of FREE INQUIRY.
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On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams, edited by James Calvin Davis (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008, ISBN 13-978-0674-02622) 288 pp. Cloth $49.95. The clear and informed “Introduction: Roger Williams and the Birth of an American Ideal” is worth the price of On Religious Liberty. Drawing from …
The History of Freethought
Freethought Across the Centuries: Toward a New Age of Enlightenment by Gerald A. Larue. (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanist Press, 1996) y + 516 pp., index included, cloth $27.95. Those who would like to pronounce funeral rites over the Enlightenment that emerged in Europe and America in the days of Ben Franklin, David Hume, J. S. Bach, …