John Locke's Christianity

Diego Lucci (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-81942-8 (ISBN)

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In this book, Diego Lucci offers a thorough analysis and reassessment of Locke's unique, heterodox, internally coherent version of Protestant Christianity. Critically examining all of the main aspects of his unorthodox theological ideas, Lucci calls attention to Locke's influences and explores in depth the reception of his work.

John Locke's religious interests and concerns permeate his philosophical production and are best expressed in his later writings on religion, which represent the culmination of his studies. In this volume, Diego Lucci offers a thorough analysis and reassessment of Locke's unique, heterodox, internally coherent version of Protestant Christianity, which emerges from The Reasonableness of Christianity and other public as well as private texts. In order to clarify Locke's views on morality, salvation, and the afterlife, Lucci critically examines Locke's theistic ethics, biblical hermeneutics, reflection on natural and revealed law, mortalism, theory of personal identity, Christology, and tolerationism. While emphasizing the originality of Locke's scripture-based religion, this book calls attention to his influences and explores the reception of his unorthodox theological ideas. Moreover, the book highlights the impact of Locke's natural and biblical theology on other areas of his thought, thus enabling a better understanding of the unity of his work.

Diego Lucci is Professor of Philosophy and History at the American University in Bulgaria. Among his publications are the monograph Scripture and Deism (2008) and the co-edited volume Atheism and Deism Revalued (with Wayne Hudson and Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, 2014).

Introduction; 1. The context and background of Locke's biblical theology; 1.1 Rejecting antinomianism and deism; 1.2 Searching for the foundations of morality; 1.3 Reason, revelation, and morality; 2. Engaging with scripture and heterodoxy; 2.1 Socinianism and Arminianism; 2.2 Scriptural authority and historical method; 2.3 The way of fundamentals; 3. A scripture-based moralist soteriology; 3.1 Natural theology, biblical theology, and natural law theory; 3.2 Law of nature, law of Moses, law of faith; 3.3 Original sin, satisfaction, and atonement; 4. The soul and the Last Judgment; 4.1 Death and resurrection; 4.2 Personal identity and moral accountability; 4.3 Consciousness, repentance, and salvation; 5. The Trinity and Christ; 5.1 The Trinitarian controversy; 5.2 Locke's messianic and non-Trinitarian Christology; 5.3 The debate on Locke and the Trinity; 6. Religious toleration and Christian irenicism; 6.1 The theoretical framework of A Letter concerning Toleration; 6.2 Locke's omissions and exceptions to toleration in the letter and other writings; 6.3 Salvation and toleration in Locke's theological writings; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2022
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	346 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-108-81942-7 / 1108819427
ISBN-13	978-1-108-81942-8 / 9781108819428
Zustand	Neuware