John Locke
Resistance, Religion and Responsibility

A major account of the development of the political, religious, social and moral thought of John Locke.

John Marshall (Author)

9780521466875, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 August 1994

512 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.723 kg

"This is a very good book. It presents the historical context in which Locke's doctrine emerged clearly and intelligently....It is also the most careful and comprehensive treatment of Locke's political theology I have read." Edward G. Andrew, Albion

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 It analyses many of Locke's unpublished manuscripts and relatively neglected works as well as the Two Treatises, the Letter Concerning Toleration and the Essay Concerning Human Understanding.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.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]