Piety and Humanity: Essays on Religion and Early Modern Political PhilosophyThe 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. |
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Contents
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 |
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| Title | Piety and Humanity: Essays on Religion and Early Modern Political Philosophy G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Editor | Douglas Kries |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0847686191, 9780847686193 |
| Length | 293 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern |
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