John Locke: Resistance, Religion: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 1/12/2008
EAN 9780521466875, ISBN10: 0521466873
Paperback, 512 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
This book provides a contextual account of the development of John Locke's political, religious, social and moral thought. It analyses many of Locke's unpublished manuscripts and relatively neglected works as well as the Two Treatises, the Letter Concerning Toleration and the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Professor Marshall studies the development of Locke's political thought from absolutism to resistance, and provides significant revisions to current explanations of the immediate contexts and purposes of composition of the Two Treatises. He also sets out major accounts of Locke's moral, social and religious thought both as extremely important subjects in their own right and in order to challenge many scholars' interpretations of their influences on Locke's political thought.
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Locke's intellectual development
Part I. Religion and the Politics of Toleration
1. Against the 'tyranny of a religious rage'
2. Restoration churchmanship and the 'Essay on Toleration'
3. Undermining the temple of worship of priest and prince
4. The theology of a reasonable man 1667–83
Part II. Resistance and Responsibility
5. Locke's moral and social thought 1660–81
the ethics of a gentleman
6. Resistance and the Second Treatise
7. Locke's moral and social thought 1681–1704
Part III. Heresy, Priestcraft and Toleration
John Locke Against the 'Empire of Darkness'
8. Theology, epistemology and toleration
against the 'Empire of Darkness'
9. The contexts of The Reasonableness of Christianity
10. From the Reasonableness to the Paraphrase
a unitarian heretic
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.