Christianity, Antiquity, and Enlightenment Interpretations of Locke [Hardcover]

The volume will consist of a series of interpretative studies of Lockes philosophical and religious thought in historical context and consider his contributions to the Enlightenment and modern liberal thought.

The studies in the book reveal the unexpected richness of the mind of John Locke, its complexity, the ambiguities and curious turns of thought that find expression in his writing, and the depth of his thinking.

List of Abbreviations.-?Introduction.- 1. A portrait of Locke as Christian Virtuoso.-2.?Lockes Theology, 16941704.- 3.?Lockes Proof of the divine authority of Scripture.- 4.?Lockes Christology as a Key to understanding his Philosophy.- 5.?Locke on St Paul, Messianic Secrecy and the Consummation of Faith.- 6.?Lockes Dubia circa Philosophiam Orientalem and the reception of Kabbala Denudata ?in England during the Seventeenth Century.- 7.?Reflections on Lockes Platonism.- 8.?Aspects of Stoicism in Lockes Philosophy. 9.?Locke against the Epicureans. 10.?Lockes Religious Thinking and his Politics. 11.?Catharine Cockburns Enlightenment.

From the reviews:

Anyone with a serious interest in Locke will be stimulated & . Nuovo brings to the study of Locke a sensitivity to theological nuance and to the varieties of Christian doctrine which is rare in this day and age & . serve as countervailing evidence for those who continue to imagine a thoroughly modern Mr. Locke, who engaged with the world in the secular liberal terms of a Rawls. & Taken as a whole, Professor Nuovos book succeeds quite splendidly & . (Timothy Stanton, Locke Studies)It is commonly accepted that John Locke was the father of the English Enlightenment and the founder of modern political liberalism. These are at best half-truths that, when uncritically employed, have the effect of casting him as the precursor secular modernism, as a thinker with little interest in the themes explored in the several chapters of thls.