Piety and Humanity: Essays on Religion and Early Modern Political PhilosophyDouglas Kries Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 - 293 páginas The nature of the relationship between early modern political philosophy and revealed religion has been much debated. The contributors to Piety and Humanity argue that this relationship is one of dissonance rather than concord. They claim that the early modern political philosophers found revealed religion-especially Christianity-to be a threat to the modern political project, and that these philosophers therefore attempted to transform revealed religion so that it would be less of a threat, and possibly even an aid. Each essay is devoted to a particular work by a single political philosopher; the thinkers and works discussed include Machiavelli's Exhortation to Penitence, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, and Locke's Reasonableness of Christianity. Each essay is followed by a brief selected bibliography. This book will be of great importance to philosophers, political theorists, and scholars of religion and early modern European history. |
Contenido
A QUESTION OF PIETY MACHIAVELLIS TREATMENT OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE EXHORTATION TO PENITENCE | 11 |
MACHIAVELLFS EXHORTATION TO PENITENCE | 45 |
BACONS NEW ATLANTIS THE CHRISTIAN HOPE AND THE MODERN HOPE | 49 |
AN ANTIDOTE TO THE CURRENT FASHION OF REGARDING HOBBES AS A SINCERE THEIST | 79 |
SPINOZAS THEOLOGICOPOLITICAL TREATISEA FIRST INSIDE LOOK | 109 |
SPINOZAS PREFACE TO THE THEOLOGICOPOLITICAL TREATISE | 133 |
LOCKE ON REASONABLE CHRISTIANITY AND REASONABLE POLITICS | 143 |
THE BIBLE AND NATURAL FREEDOM IN JOHN LOCKES POLITICAL THOUGHT | 179 |
REINVENTING PAUL JOHN LOCKE THE GENEVA BIBLE AND PAULS EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS | 211 |
THE DISPLACEMENT OF CHRISTIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY IN MONTESQUIEUS BOOK ON THE ROMANS | 231 |
ROUSSEAU AND THE PROBLEM OF RELIGIOUS TOLERATION | 257 |
INDEX | 285 |
291 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Piety and Humanity: Essays on Religion and Early Modern Political Philosophy Douglas Kries Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adam appear argues argument Augustine authority Bacon believe Bensalem Bensalemite Calvin Cambridge chap chapter charity Christ Christian church City of God civil religion claim concerning David death Discourses divine doctrine dogmas donation empire essay eternal Exhortation to Penitence faith fear Filmer Francis Bacon fundamental Genesis Geneva Bible God's Gospel Hobbes Hobbes's hope human humankind implies important interpretation intolerance John Locke Leo Strauss Leviathan liberal liberal democracy Locke's Machiavelli Machiavelli's Exhortation means modern Montesquieu moral natural freedom natural law Orosius pagan passions peace philosophers piety Political Philosophy principle problem prophets punishment question rational reason reference religious revelation righteousness Romans Rousseau rule Salomon's House salvation says Scripture seems sins Social Contract soul sovereign Spinoza's spirit Strauss suggests superstition teaching theological Theologico-Political Theologico-Political Treatise things Thomas Hobbes toleration traditional Treatise Treatises of Government true understanding University Press Weissman words