The Intolerance of Tolerance

by D.A. Carson

Book Overview

Tolerance currently occupies a very high place in Western societies: it is considered gauche, even boorish, to question it. In The Intolerance of Tolerance, however, questioning tolerance -- or, at least, contemporary understandings of tolerance -- is exactly what D. A . Carson does.

Carson traces the subtle but enormous shift in the way we have come to understand tolerance over recent years -- from defending the rights of those who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802869408
• ISBN13: 9780802869401
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"