Religion

Liberty is an idea and an idealized state of being that can be traced through many of the religious traditions of the world. Across time periods, theological differences, and cultural contexts, many different religious thinkers have arrived at an understanding of the importance of liberty–coupled with some form of moral responsibility–in the organization and conduct of human affairs. We encourage you to explore the quotations in this collection to discover more about the connection between liberty and religion.

See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the Religion section of the Ideas page.

• The Church (David S. Schaff)
• The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume X - Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society (John Stuart Mill)
• The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner (1834-1886), in one vol. (Lysander Spooner)
• A Collection of Tracts, 2 vols. (1751) (Thomas Gordon)
• A Collection of Tracts, vol. I (Thomas Gordon)
• A Collection of Tracts, vol. 2 (Thomas Gordon)
• Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians and the Ephesians (Rev. William Pringle)
• Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul to the Romans (John Calvin)
• Commentary on Filangieri’s Work (Benjamin Constant)
• The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, 8 vols. (Rev. J.A. Giles)
• The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, 8 vols. (Rev. J.A. Giles)
• The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, 8 vols. (Rev. J.A. Giles)
• The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, 8 vols. (Rev. J.A. Giles)
• The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, 8 vols. (Rev. J.A. Giles)
• The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, 8 vols. (Rev. J.A. Giles)
• The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, 8 vols. (Rev. J.A. Giles)
• The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, 8 vols. (Rev. J.A. Giles)
• The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 (Samuel Rawson Gardiner)
• The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (Hugh Trevor-Roper)
• Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics (Thomas Kingsmill Abbott)
• The Divine Feudal Law: Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented (Samuel von Pufendorf)
• The Early Christian Attitude to War (Rev. William Edwin Orchard)
• The Eccesiastical History of the English Nation (and Lives of Saints and Bishops) (Vida Dutton Scudder)
• The Ethical Treatises, being the Treatises of the First Ennead (Plotinus)
• Psychic and Physical Treatises; comprising the Second and Third Enneads (Plotinus)