Hobbes on Politics and Religion 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0192525107
• ISBN-13: 9780192525109
• Author: Laurens van Apeldoorn; Robin Douglass

Thomas Hobbes, one of the most important figures in the history of political philosophy, is still widely regarded as a predominantly secular thinker. Yet a great deal of his political thought was motivated by the need to address problems of a distinctively religious nature. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the complex and rich intersections between Hobbes’s political and religious thought. Written by experts in the field, the volume opens up new directions for thinking about his treatment of religion as a political phenomenon and the political dimensions of his engagement with Christian doctrines and their history. The chapters investigate his strategies for showing how his provocative political positions could be accepted by different religious audiences for whom fidelity to religious texts was of crucial importance, while also considering the legacy of his ideas and examining their relevance for contemporary concerns. Some chapters do so by pursuing mainly historical inquiries about the motives and circumstances of Hobbes’s writings, while others reconstruct the logic of his arguments and test their philosophical coherence. They thus offer wide-ranging and sometimes conflicting assessments of Hobbes’s ideas, yet they all demonstrate how closely intertwined his political and religious preoccupations are and thereby showcase how this perspective can help us to better understand his thought.

Table contents:

1 The Theocratic Leviathan: Hobbes’s Arguments for the Identity of Church and State

2 Natural Sovereignty and Omnipotence in Hobbes’s Leviathan

3 First Impressions: Hobbes on Religion, Education, and the Metaphor of Imprinting

4 Tolerance as a Dimension of Hobbes’s Absolutism

5 Hobbes on the Motives of Martyrs

6 Hobbes, Calvinism, and Determinism

7 Mosaic Leviathan: Religion and Rhetoric in Hobbes’s Political Thought

8 Devil in the Details: Hobbes’s Use and Abuse of Scripture

9 The Politics of Hobbes’s Historia Ecclesiastica

10 A Profile in Cowardice? Hobbes, Personation, and the Trinity

11 Hobbes and the Future of Religion

12 Hobbes and Early English Deism

13 All the Wars of Christendom: Hobbes’s Theory of Religious Conflict

14 Religious Conflict and Moral Consensus: Hobbes, Rawls, and Two Types of Moral Justification

15 Hobbes on the Duty Not to Act on Conscience

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