Jeffrey Collins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3836748 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeffrey Collins |
| NOMBRES | Jeffrey |
| APELLIDO | Collins |
| FIRMA | COLLINS J |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9065-5566 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Steven D. Smith, the Disintegrating Conscience and the Decline of Modernity. (Notre Dame, In
Hobbes’s Philosophy of Religion
The quality and sincerity of Thomas Hobbes’s religion has been a matter of heated dispute since his own lifetime. Modern scholarship on the question has exploded over the past three decades. It broadly pits those convinced of Hobbes’s atheism (and, by consequence, his insincere, esoteric mode of writing) against those who view Hobbes not just as a theist but as some sort of “nonstandard” Protestant. The former scholars are usually, but not inevit…
Accidental Pluralism
Reforming the Law of Nature
Journal Article Reforming the Law of Nature: The Secularization of Political Thought, 1532–1689. By Simon P. Kennedy Get access Reforming the Law of Nature: The Secularization of Political Thought, 1532–1689. By Simon P. Kennedy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 216pp. $110.00 eBook. Jeffrey Collins Jeffrey Collins Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
The Popish Plot
This article places the Popish Plot of 1678–81 into two fresh historiographical frames: the history of emotions, and the history of early modern conspiracy theorizing. It argues that conventional readings of the plot uncritically echo contemporary sources, many of which presented it as a conspiracy of elite insiders. These interpretations rely on implicit, misleading accounts of the emotional history of the plot, according to which the fear or pa…
Reflections on Hecaa at 25
Jeffrey CollinsElisabeth FraserElizabeth MansfieldAmelia RauserKristel Smentek & Wendy BellionParis Spies-GansNancy UmAmy Freund “Art and Architecture in the Long Eighteenth Century: HECAA at 25” was a conference held at Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX, November 1-4, 2018
The Sovereign and the Prophets
Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe
Gatti, Hilary. Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Piety and Conflict in the Early Reformation), on Érudit
Malcolm’s Leviathan
The publication of the Clarendon edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes recently entered its fourth decade. The monumental project has unfolded against shifting methodologies in the practice of intellectual history, and the edition's own history exemplifies these shifts. Its first general editor was Howard Warrender, who died in 1985 after a distinguished career as a professor of political theory at the University of Sheffield. Warrender was best …
Thomas Hobbes, Heresy, and the Theological Project of Leviathan
In the later years of his life, Thomas Hobbes developed an intense interest in the history of Christian heresy, an interest which informed half a dozen of his manuscripts and publications. These heresy writings have typically been studied within the context of Restoration church politics. This article offers a broader account of the significance of these writings. It reads them as extensions of Hobbes’s longstanding project of theological reform.…
Quentin Skinner's Hobbes and the Neo-Republican Project
For nearly half a century, Quentin Skinner has been the world's foremost interpreter of Thomas Hobbes. When the contextualist mode of intellectual history now known as the “Cambridge School” was first asserting itself in the 1960s, the life and writings of John Locke were the primary topic for pioneers such as Peter Laslett and John Dunn. At that time, Hobbes was still the plaything of philosophers and political scientists, virtually all of whom …
Interpreting Thomas Hobbes in Competing Contexts
A. P. Martinich's The Two Gods of Leviathan appeared in 1992, and J. R. Collins's The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes in 2005. Martinich offered a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's religious commitments. He rebuked the conventional view that Hobbes was an atheist and placed him within particular traditions of reformed Christian theology. Collins's book strongly differed from these conclusions, and reasserted Hobbes's hostility to traditio…
Redeeming the Enlightenment
British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800
The Church Settlement of Oliver Cromwell
In the first months of his Protectorate, Oliver Cromwell’s council created two administrative bodies of ‘Triers’ and ‘Ejectors’ to govern England’s clergy. This church settlement lasted for the remainder of the Interregnum and aroused heated controversy. The Protector repeatedly recognized it as the most important administrative achievement of his regime. Nevertheless, the settlement of 1654 has been largely neglected (or misinterpreted) by histo…
Thomas Hobbes and the Blackloist Conspiracy of 1649
In a jarring passage toward the conclusion of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes endorsed the abolition of episcopacy and the establishment of an Independent religious settlement within England. Most historians have ignored this feature of Leviathan, or have dismissed it as an off-hand aside of no consequence. Others, more plausibly, have construed it as part of a royalist scheme (encouraged by Queen Henrietta Maria and her supporters) to secure a Stuart R…
Christian Ecclesiology and the Composition of Leviathan
This communication presents a newly discovered letter to Thomas Hobbes. It offers conclusive evidence that the letter was written by Hobbes's friend, the scientist and Anglican clergyman Robert Payne, and strong evidence that the letter was in fact received by Hobbes in late 1649. The discovered letter was part of a running controversy over questions of church government in which Hobbes and Payne engaged during the composition of Leviathan . In i…
The Restoration Bishops and the Royal Supremacy
Among the defining traits of Restoration politics was a degree of hostility between the royal court and the English episcopate unprecedented since the Reformation. A long pattern of cooperation between the king and bishops was broken after 1660. The issues of religious toleration and of Charles II's Catholic sympathies particularly divided church and court, and at times rendered them overt political opponents. Significant study has been made of t…
The Church Settlement of Oliver Cromwell
In the first months of his Protectorate, Oliver Cromwell’s council created two administrative bodies of ‘Triers’ and ‘Ejectors’ to govern England’s clergy. This church settlement lasted for the remainder of the Interregnum and aroused heated controversy. The Protector repeatedly recognized it as the most important administrative achievement of his regime. Nevertheless, the settlement of 1654 has been largely neglected (or misinterpreted) by histo…
Redeeming the Enlightenment
Thomas Hobbes and the Blackloist Conspiracy of 1649
In a jarring passage toward the conclusion of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes endorsed the abolition of episcopacy and the establishment of an Independent religious settlement within England. Most historians have ignored this feature of Leviathan, or have dismissed it as an off-hand aside of no consequence. Others, more plausibly, have construed it as part of a royalist scheme (encouraged by Queen Henrietta Maria and her supporters) to secure a Stuart R…
Christian Ecclesiology and the Composition of Leviathan
This communication presents a newly discovered letter to Thomas Hobbes. It offers conclusive evidence that the letter was written by Hobbes's friend, the scientist and Anglican clergyman Robert Payne, and strong evidence that the letter was in fact received by Hobbes in late 1649. The discovered letter was part of a running controversy over questions of church government in which Hobbes and Payne engaged during the composition of Leviathan . In i…
Quentin Skinner's Hobbes and the Neo-Republican Project
For nearly half a century, Quentin Skinner has been the world's foremost interpreter of Thomas Hobbes. When the contextualist mode of intellectual history now known as the “Cambridge School” was first asserting itself in the 1960s, the life and writings of John Locke were the primary topic for pioneers such as Peter Laslett and John Dunn. At that time, Hobbes was still the plaything of philosophers and political scientists, virtually all of whom …
The Restoration Bishops and the Royal Supremacy
Among the defining traits of Restoration politics was a degree of hostility between the royal court and the English episcopate unprecedented since the Reformation. A long pattern of cooperation between the king and bishops was broken after 1660. The issues of religious toleration and of Charles II's Catholic sympathies particularly divided church and court, and at times rendered them overt political opponents. Significant study has been made of t…
Malcolm’s Leviathan
The publication of the Clarendon edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes recently entered its fourth decade. The monumental project has unfolded against shifting methodologies in the practice of intellectual history, and the edition's own history exemplifies these shifts. Its first general editor was Howard Warrender, who died in 1985 after a distinguished career as a professor of political theory at the University of Sheffield. Warrender was best …
The Restoration Bishops and the Royal Supremacy
Among the defining traits of Restoration politics was a degree of hostility between the royal court and the English episcopate unprecedented since the Reformation. A long pattern of cooperation between the king and bishops was broken after 1660. The issues of religious toleration and of Charles II's Catholic sympathies particularly divided church and court, and at times rendered them overt political opponents. Significant study has been made of t…
Christian Ecclesiology and the Composition of Leviathan
This communication presents a newly discovered letter to Thomas Hobbes. It offers conclusive evidence that the letter was written by Hobbes's friend, the scientist and Anglican clergyman Robert Payne, and strong evidence that the letter was in fact received by Hobbes in late 1649. The discovered letter was part of a running controversy over questions of church government in which Hobbes and Payne engaged during the composition of Leviathan . In i…
The Church Settlement of Oliver Cromwell
In the first months of his Protectorate, Oliver Cromwell’s council created two administrative bodies of ‘Triers’ and ‘Ejectors’ to govern England’s clergy. This church settlement lasted for the remainder of the Interregnum and aroused heated controversy. The Protector repeatedly recognized it as the most important administrative achievement of his regime. Nevertheless, the settlement of 1654 has been largely neglected (or misinterpreted) by histo…
Thomas Hobbes and the Blackloist Conspiracy of 1649
In a jarring passage toward the conclusion of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes endorsed the abolition of episcopacy and the establishment of an Independent religious settlement within England. Most historians have ignored this feature of Leviathan, or have dismissed it as an off-hand aside of no consequence. Others, more plausibly, have construed it as part of a royalist scheme (encouraged by Queen Henrietta Maria and her supporters) to secure a Stuart R…
British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800
Quentin Skinner's Hobbes and the Neo-Republican Project
For nearly half a century, Quentin Skinner has been the world's foremost interpreter of Thomas Hobbes. When the contextualist mode of intellectual history now known as the “Cambridge School” was first asserting itself in the 1960s, the life and writings of John Locke were the primary topic for pioneers such as Peter Laslett and John Dunn. At that time, Hobbes was still the plaything of philosophers and political scientists, virtually all of whom …
Interpreting Thomas Hobbes in Competing Contexts
A. P. Martinich's The Two Gods of Leviathan appeared in 1992, and J. R. Collins's The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes in 2005. Martinich offered a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's religious commitments. He rebuked the conventional view that Hobbes was an atheist and placed him within particular traditions of reformed Christian theology. Collins's book strongly differed from these conclusions, and reasserted Hobbes's hostility to traditio…
Redeeming the Enlightenment
Thomas Hobbes, Heresy, and the Theological Project of Leviathan
In the later years of his life, Thomas Hobbes developed an intense interest in the history of Christian heresy, an interest which informed half a dozen of his manuscripts and publications. These heresy writings have typically been studied within the context of Restoration church politics. This article offers a broader account of the significance of these writings. It reads them as extensions of Hobbes’s longstanding project of theological reform.…
Malcolm’s Leviathan
The publication of the Clarendon edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes recently entered its fourth decade. The monumental project has unfolded against shifting methodologies in the practice of intellectual history, and the edition's own history exemplifies these shifts. Its first general editor was Howard Warrender, who died in 1985 after a distinguished career as a professor of political theory at the University of Sheffield. Warrender was best …
Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe
Gatti, Hilary. Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Piety and Conflict in the Early Reformation), on Érudit
Reflections on Hecaa at 25
Jeffrey CollinsElisabeth FraserElizabeth MansfieldAmelia RauserKristel Smentek & Wendy BellionParis Spies-GansNancy UmAmy Freund “Art and Architecture in the Long Eighteenth Century: HECAA at 25” was a conference held at Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX, November 1-4, 2018
The Sovereign and the Prophets
Reforming the Law of Nature
Journal Article Reforming the Law of Nature: The Secularization of Political Thought, 1532–1689. By Simon P. Kennedy Get access Reforming the Law of Nature: The Secularization of Political Thought, 1532–1689. By Simon P. Kennedy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 216pp. $110.00 eBook. Jeffrey Collins Jeffrey Collins Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
The Popish Plot
This article places the Popish Plot of 1678–81 into two fresh historiographical frames: the history of emotions, and the history of early modern conspiracy theorizing. It argues that conventional readings of the plot uncritically echo contemporary sources, many of which presented it as a conspiracy of elite insiders. These interpretations rely on implicit, misleading accounts of the emotional history of the plot, according to which the fear or pa…
Accidental Pluralism
Steven D. Smith, the Disintegrating Conscience and the Decline of Modernity. (Notre Dame, In
Hobbes’s Philosophy of Religion
The quality and sincerity of Thomas Hobbes’s religion has been a matter of heated dispute since his own lifetime. Modern scholarship on the question has exploded over the past three decades. It broadly pits those convinced of Hobbes’s atheism (and, by consequence, his insincere, esoteric mode of writing) against those who view Hobbes not just as a theist but as some sort of “nonstandard” Protestant. The former scholars are usually, but not inevit…
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