Christianity, Antiquity, and Enlightenment Interpretations of Locke /

• Main Author: Nuovo, Victor (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 203
• Subjects: History.; Religion.; Philosophy.; Religion > Philosophy.; History, general.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy of Religion.; Religious Studies, general.

It is commonly accepted that John Locke was the father of the English Enlightenment and the founder of modern political liberalism. These are at best half-truths that, when uncritically employed, have the effect of casting him as the precursor secular modernism, as a thinker with little interest in...

Table of Contents:

• List of Abbreviations.- Introduction
• 1. A portrait of Locke as Christian Virtuoso.-2. Locke’s Theology, 1694–1704
• 3. Locke’s Proof of the divine authority of Scripture
• 4. Locke’s Christology as a Key to understanding his Philosophy
• 5. Locke on St Paul, Messianic Secrecy and the Consummation of Faith
• 6. Locke’s ‘Dubia circa Philosophiam Orientalem’ and the reception of Kabbala Denudata  in England during the Seventeenth Century
• 7. Reflections on Locke’s Platonism
• 8. Aspects of Stoicism in Locke’s Philosophy
• 9. Locke against the Epicureans
• 10. Locke’s Religious Thinking and his Politics
• 11. Catharine Cockburn’s Enlightenment.