John Locke Resistance, Religion and Responsibility [Paperback]

A major account of the development of the political, religious, social and moral thought of John Locke.Providing a major new historical account of the development of Locke's thought, this study offers reinterpretations of several of his most important works, particularly the Two Treatises, and includes extensive analyses of his unpublished manuscripts.Providing a major new historical account of the development of Locke's thought, this study offers reinterpretations of several of his most important works, particularly the Two Treatises, and includes extensive analyses of his unpublished manuscripts.This book provides a major new historical account of the development of the political, religious, social and moral thought of the political theorist and philosopher John Locke. It offers reinterpretations of several of his most important works, particularly the Two Treatises, and includes extensive analyses of his unpublished manuscripts. Professor Marshall's arguments challenge many other scholars' interpretations of the character and influences of Locke's moral, social and religious thought and provide an alternative account.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 166783; Part II. Resistance and Responsibility: 5. Locke's moral and social thought 166081: the ethics of a gentleman; 6. Resistance and the Second Treatise; 7. Locke's moral and social thought 16811704; 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; lãŸ