5. Liberalism and Christianity: Locke’s Use of the Bible in the Second Treatise

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Machiavelli, Christianity, and Civil Religion 13
6. 2. How Francis Bacon’s New Organon Co-opts Biblical Theology for His New Atlantis 34
7. 3. Leviathan’s Reconquest of the Christian Person for the State 53
8. 4. Will Wonders Never Cease? Spinoza’s Critique of Miracles 70
9. 5. Liberalism and Christianity: Locke’s Use of the Bible in the Second Treatise 94
10. 6. Montesquieu’s Machiavellian Account of Civil Religion 114
11. 7. Montesquieu and Christianity in the American Project: The Moderate Spirit of Religious Liberty 131
12. 8. Hume on Church Establishments: History, Moderation, and Liberty 157
13. 9. Rousseau’s Civil Religion “Problem” 183
14. 10. How the Founders Agreed About Religious Freedom but Disagreed About the Separation of Church and State 198
15. 11. Tocqueville on Religion and Democratic Character: Equality, Mediocrity, and Greatness 214
16. List of Contributors 235
17. Index 239