Abstract
A study of the works of the Lyons theologian Marie Huber (1695-1753) reveals an interesting development in her concept of toleration, from Calvinism to Rousseauism. In her childhood, Ostervald's Catechism showed her that the conscience must be enlightened by Scripture, while around 1715 the influence of Pietism led her to see her conscience as the voice of God himself. Twenty years later, conscience became a natural light placed by God in each one of us, influencing the will through feeling. After rejecting Ostervald's reasonable reli¬ gion, Marie Huber thus also distanced herself from extraordinary phenomena, in a development similar to that of many other radical Pietists in Switzerland, Germany or England. The development was however not yet complete, for at the end of her life she no longer refers to conscience, as the exercise of 'right reason3 is sufficient to establish the truth.
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