Westminster Institute Talks

https://westminster-institute.org/events/liberty-in-the-things-of-god-the-christian-origins-of-religious-freedom/ Robert Louis Wilken is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the  History of Christianity emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is an  elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past  president of the American Academy of Religion, the North American  Patristics Society, and the Academy of Catholic Theology. He is chairman  of the board of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, the  publisher of First Things. His new book is Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of  Religious Freedom. (It will be available at his lecture for purchase and  signing.) Dr. Wilken states: “Religious freedom rests on a simple  truth: religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart  and for that reason cannot be coerced by external force.” Chronicling  the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the e