Collected Tweets From Timothy Shah’s American Democracy Lecture at Messiah College

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    4:59 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    4m
    Shah: Religious freedom was more than a modern, Enlightened, Protestant, or Christian idea.


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    4:56 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    7m
    Shah: Who is real symbol of religious freedom? Is it the founding father Jefferson or the African church father Tertullian?


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    4:52 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    11m
    Shah: How much influence did Tertullian’s idea of religious freedom have during his day?


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    4:50 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    13m
    Shah:Tertullian thought religious freedom was dangerous.. It contributed to a sense of identity higher than the state.


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    4:48 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    16m
    Shah: Tertullian believed that it was something akin to committing “civic suicide” to not allow religious freedom


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    4:55 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    9m
    Shah: Language of religious freedom and individual rights Tertullian introduced is evident in Edict of Milan in 4th century
     
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    4:47 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    17m
    Shah: Tertiullian defended the “modern” notion of the individual consicence and connected it to religious freedom
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    4:46 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    18m
    Shah: Tertullian argued that religious freedom preserves the common good and protects people from the state.


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    4:43 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    20m
    Shah: Tertullian believed religious freedom is essential to respecting human reason and judgment.


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    4:42 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    22m
    Shah: Tertullian believed religious freedom honored our basic sense of human dignity


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    4:40 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    23m
    Shah: Tertullian argued Roman persecution of Christians is universally wrong. Freedom is a condition of religious devotion


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    4:38 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    25m
    Shah is now unpaclking Tertullian’s view of religious freedom. He uses the word “religious liberty.” Perhaps 1st known use


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    4:33 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    30m
    Shah: How do you explain the similarities between Jefferson and Tertullian on religious freedom.? Tertullian was a dogmatist


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    4:31 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    33m
    Shah: Tertullian articulated an idea of religious freedom almost identical to Jefferson’s later idea of religious freedom


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    4:29 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    34m
    Shah: Why would Jefferson cite Tertullian, a premodern authority, to support a modern idea like religious freedom


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    4:28 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    36m
    Shah: Jefferson references Tertullian, the Latin church father, in *Notes on State of VA* when he discusses religious freedom


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    4:26 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    38m
    Shah: Jefferson’s idea of religious freedom is individual, normative, and universal rooted in human dignity
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    4:22 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    41m
    Shah: Is religious freedom universal or is it modern, Enlightenment, Protestant, latitudinarian, parochial, Jeffersonian?


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    4:19 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    45m
    I am using but this hashtag may be too long

     

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    4:18 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    46m
    Shah: Pew Research shows that 75% of the world’s people live in countries with religious persecution and no religious freedom


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    4:16 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    47m
    Shah: Is religious freedom a Western idea that America is trying to impose on the world or it is a universal idea?


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    4:14 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    49m
    Shah: The Left thinks religious freedom is an American construction that should not be transported to the rest of the world
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    4:13 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    51m
    Shah: Religious freedom is both universal and exceptional.


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    4:11 PM – 8 Oct 13 · Details

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    52m
    Shah:American values are both universal and exceptional  

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    Shah: Both Roger Williams and William Penn read Tertullian on religious freedom

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    1. johnshaw4blog says

      Professor Fea – great tweets! I look forward to reading some of Shah's work on Tertullian.

      Another good source not listed is:
      Justifying Religious Freedom: The Western Tradition by E. Gregory Wallace

      On p, 504 Wallace concludes: “While Tertullian was the first to articulate a general principle of
      religious freedom, his arguments were not well developed and had a
      somewhat limited effect, being addressed to his Roman persecutors and not to fellow-Christians who were in disagreement with other Christians. His writings on toleration, however, are the most important Christian source for Lactantius, who “draws on Tertullian for his idea that religion requires liberty” and in so doing provides Constantine with the basis for a remarkably progressive policy of religious freedom.”

      http://pennstatelawreview.org/articles/114%20Penn%20St.%20L.%20Rev.%20485.pdf 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 485

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