The Biblical Politics Of John Locke

Author : Kim Ian Parker
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781554581191

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The Biblical Politics of John Locke by Kim Ian Parker Pdf

John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely interested in the Bible, and he was engaged by biblical theology and religion throughout his life. In this new book, K.I. Parker considers Locke’s interest in Scripture and how that interest is articulated in the development of his political philosophy. Parker shows that Locke’s liberalism is inspired by his religious vision and, particularly, his distinctive understanding of the early chapters of the book of Genesis. Unlike Sir Robert Filmer, who understood the Bible to justify social hierarchies (i.e., the divine right of the king, the first-born son’s rights over other siblings, and the “natural” subservience of women to men), Locke understood from the Bible that humans are in a natural state of freedom and equality to each other. The biblical debate between Filmer and Locke furnishes scholars with a better understanding of Lockes political views as presented in his Two Treatises. The Biblical Politics of John Locke demonstrates the impact of the Bible on one of the most influential thinkers of the seventeenth century, and provides an original context in which to situate the debate concerning the origins of early modern political thought.

Author : Yechiel J. M. Leiter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108428187

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John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible by Yechiel J. M. Leiter Pdf

John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?

Author : Jeremy Waldron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Equality
ISBN : 0511072651

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God, Locke, and Equality by Jeremy Waldron Pdf

This concise new study from a senior political philosopher looks at the principle of equality in the thought of John Locke. Throughout the text Jeremy Waldron discusses contemporary approaches to equality and rival interpretations of Locke, and this gives the whole an unusual degree of accessibility and intellectual excitement.

Author : Yechiel M. Leiter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1108449069

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John Lockeʹs Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible by Yechiel M. Leiter Pdf

John Locke's treatises on government make frequent reference to the Hebrew Bible, while references to the New Testament are almost completely absent. To date, scholarship has not addressed this surprising characteristic of the treatises. In this book, Yechiel Leiter offers a Hebraic reading of Locke's fundamental political text. In doing so, he formulates a new school of thought in Lockean political interpretation and challenges existing ones. He shows how a grasp of the Hebraic underpinnings of Locke's political theory resolves many of the problems, as well as scholarly debates, that are inherent in reading Locke. More than a book about the political theory of John Locke, this volume is about the foundational ideas of western civilization. While focused on Locke's Hebraism, it demonstrates the persistent relevance of the biblical political narrative to modernity. It will generate interest among students of Locke and political theory; philosophy and early modern history; and within Bible study communities.

Author : Diego Lucci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108836913

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John Locke's Christianity by Diego Lucci Pdf

Provides a thorough analysis and reassessment of Locke's original, heterodox, internally coherent version of Protestant Christianity.

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1696
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : BCUL:1092570837

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The Reasonableness of Christianity by John Locke Pdf

Author : Gordon J. Schochet,Fania Oz-Salzberger,Meirav Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Judaism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131608460

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Political Hebraism by Gordon J. Schochet,Fania Oz-Salzberger,Meirav Jones Pdf

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1796
Category : Toleration
ISBN : PRNC:32101005061328

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A Letter Concerning Toleration. By John Locke, Esq by John Locke Pdf

Author : Ian Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521638720

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The Mind of John Locke by Ian Harris Pdf

John Locke (1632-1704) is a central figure in the history of thought, and in liberal doctrine especially. This major study brings a range of his wider views to bear upon his political theory. Every political theorist has a vision, a view about the basic features of life and society, as well as technique which mediates this into propositions about politics. Locke's vision spanned questions concerning Christian worship, ethics, political economy, medicine, the human understanding, revealed theology and education. This study shows how the character of these wider concerns informed Two Treatises of Government, especially in respect of a view of divine teleology, and situated a distinctive view of politics which treated the state and the church in parallel terms.

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Liberty
ISBN : 7500426518

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Two Treatises of Government by John Locke Pdf

Author : Victor Nuovo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198800552

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John Locke by Victor Nuovo Pdf

"Victor Nuovo represents the philosophical thought of John Locke as the work of a Christian virtuoso: an empirical natural philosopher, who was also a practising Christian. Locke believed that the two vocations were not only compatible, but mutually sustaining, and he aspired to unite them in producing a system of Christian philosophy." -- source : éditeur.

Author : Elizabeth A. Pritchard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804788878

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Religion in Public by Elizabeth A. Pritchard Pdf

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion. This interpretation has become conventional wisdom: secularization is widely understood as entailing the privatization of religion, and the separation of religion from power. This book turns that conventional wisdom on its head and argues that Locke secularizes religion, that is, makes it worldly, public, and political. In the name of diverse citizenship, Locke reconstructs religion as persuasion, speech, and fashion. He insists on a consensus that human rights are sacred insofar as humans are the creatures, and thus, the property of God. Drawing on a range of sources beyond Locke's own writings, Pritchard portrays the secular not as religion's separation from power, but rather as its affiliation with subtler, and sometimes insidious, forms of power. As a result, she captures the range of anxieties and conflicts attending religion's secularization: denunciations of promiscuous bodies freed from patriarchal religious and political formations, correlations between secular religion and colonialist education and conversion efforts, and more recently, condemnations of the coercive and injurious force of unrestricted religious speech.

Author : Nathan Guy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350103535

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Finding Locke’s God by Nathan Guy Pdf

The portrait of John Locke as a secular advocate of Enlightenment rationality has been deconstructed by the recent 'religious turn' in Locke scholarship. This book takes an important next step: moving beyond the 'religious turn' and establishing a 'theological turn', Nathan Guy argues that John Locke ought to be viewed as a Christian political philosopher whose political theory was firmly rooted in the moderating Latitudinarian theology of the seventeenth-century. Nestled between the secular political philosopher and the Christian public theologian stands Locke, the Christian political philosopher, whose arguments not only self-consciously depend upon Christian assumptions, but also offer a decidedly Christian theory of government. Finding Locke's God identifies three theological pillars crucial to Locke's political theory: (1) a biblical depiction of God, (2) the law of nature rooted in a doctrine of creation and (3) acceptance of divine revelation in scripture. As a result, Locke's political philosophy brings forth theologically-rich aims, while seeking to counter or disarm threats such as atheism, hyper-Calvinism, and religious enthusiasm. Bringing these items together, Nathan Guy demonstrates how each pillar supports Locke's Latitudinarian political philosophy and provides a better understanding of how he grounds his notions of freedom, equality and religious toleration. Convincingly argued and meticulously researched, this book offers an exciting new direction for Locke studies.

Author : Nicholas Jolley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198791706

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Toleration and Understanding in Locke by Nicholas Jolley Pdf

La 4e de couverture indique : "Despite recent advances in Locke scholarship, philosophers and political theorists have paid little attention to the relations among his three greatest works: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government, and Epistola de Tolerantia. Toleration and Understanding in Locke argues that these works are unified by a concern to promote the cause of religious toleration. Making extensive use of Locke's neglected replies to Proast, Nicholas Jolley shows how Locke draws on his epistemological principles to criticize religious persecution. Attention is paid to demonstrating the range of Locke's arguments for toleration and to defending them, where possible, against recent criticisms. The book also includes discussions of Locke's individualism about knowledge and belief, his critique of religious enthusiasm, his commitment to the minimal creed, and his teachings about natural law. Locke emerges as a rather systematic thinker whose arguments are highly relevant to modern debates about religious toleration. debates about religious toleration."

Author : Steven Frankel,Martin D. Yaffe
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271087450

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Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy by Steven Frankel,Martin D. Yaffe Pdf

Inspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of political life needed to be resolved in favor of the political, and they attempted to recast and delimit traditional Christian teaching to serve and stabilize political life accordingly. This volume examines the arguments of those thinkers who worked to remake Christianity into a civil religion in the early modern and modern periods. Beginning with Machiavelli and continuing through to Alexis de Tocqueville, the essays in this collection explain in detail the ways in which these philosophers used religious and secular writing to build a civil religion in the West. Early chapters examine topics such as Machiavelli’s comparisons of Christianity with Roman religion, Francis Bacon’s cherry-picking of Christian doctrines in the service of scientific innovation, and Spinoza’s attempt to replace long-held superstitions with newer, “progressive” ones. Other essays probe the scripture-based, anti-Christian argument that religion must be subordinate to politics espoused by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, both of whom championed reason over divine authority. Crucially, the book also includes a study of civil religion in America, with chapters on John Locke, Montesquieu, and the American Founders illuminating the relationships among religious and civil history, acts, and authority. The last chapter is an examination of Tocqueville’s account of civil religion and the American regime. Detailed, thought-provoking, and based on the careful study of original texts, this survey of religion and politics in the West will appeal to scholars in the history of political philosophy, political theory, and American political thought.