Locke had the rare gift of weighing them all, navigating through rich political position and staking out his own stand judiciously and intelligently. Tolerance was his trademark. That is how Locke sought to reserve the great debates in modern English political and church history. Many times he was embroiled in these controversies. Like Zara Yacob, the Ethiopian philosopher, Locke’s contemporary, he too was drawn to debates, and like him he was always used the light of reason to articulate his own position, without tutelage to any power.