Jeffrey Sikkenga
Biographic Data
| ID | 2240921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Sikkenga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Sikkenga |
| SIGNATURE | SIKKENGA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ashland University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John Locke’s “Unease
John Locke is acknowledged to be one of the theoretical founders of the separation of church and state, a distinguishing feature of modern liberal democracies. Though Locke’s arguments for the merits of such separation have been subject to extensive investigation, his argument for its feasibility has remained relatively unexamined. This article argues that Locke was confident that separation of church and state can successfully be implemented in …
Conceived in Doubt
Journal Article Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation Get access Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation by Amanda Porterfield. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2012. 252 pp. $40.00. Jeffrey Sikkenga Jeffrey Sikkenga Ashland University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128, Issue 1, Spring 2013, Pages 181…
Government Has No “Religious Agency”
Religious liberty has reemerged as a problem in liberal democracy. For guidance we can turn to James Madison. Unfortunately, his fundamental principle of religious liberty has been misunderstood. Madison believed that power over religious conscience always remains with the individual, which means that government never has a power to attempt to cause or prohibit religious opinions or profession and only has the power to prohibit religious practice…
Love and the Leviathan
Hobbes's understanding of love, and its significance for his political thought, has received insufficient attention. This essay contends that Hobbes has a consistent and comprehensive teaching on love that directly repudiates what he regards as the Platonic teaching on eros. In attacking the Platonic idea of eros, Hobbes undermines a pillar of classical political philosophy and articulates a significant aspect of his new understanding of the pass…
Public Reason
Reasonable Democracy
Love and the Leviathan
Hobbes's understanding of love, and its significance for his political thought, has received insufficient attention. This essay contends that Hobbes has a consistent and comprehensive teaching on love that directly repudiates what he regards as the Platonic teaching on eros. In attacking the Platonic idea of eros, Hobbes undermines a pillar of classical political philosophy and articulates a significant aspect of his new understanding of the pass…
Reasonable Democracy
Public Reason
Love and the Leviathan
Hobbes's understanding of love, and its significance for his political thought, has received insufficient attention. This essay contends that Hobbes has a consistent and comprehensive teaching on love that directly repudiates what he regards as the Platonic teaching on eros. In attacking the Platonic idea of eros, Hobbes undermines a pillar of classical political philosophy and articulates a significant aspect of his new understanding of the pass…
Government Has No “Religious Agency”
Religious liberty has reemerged as a problem in liberal democracy. For guidance we can turn to James Madison. Unfortunately, his fundamental principle of religious liberty has been misunderstood. Madison believed that power over religious conscience always remains with the individual, which means that government never has a power to attempt to cause or prohibit religious opinions or profession and only has the power to prohibit religious practice…
Conceived in Doubt
Journal Article Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation Get access Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation by Amanda Porterfield. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2012. 252 pp. $40.00. Jeffrey Sikkenga Jeffrey Sikkenga Ashland University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128, Issue 1, Spring 2013, Pages 181…
John Locke’s “Unease
John Locke is acknowledged to be one of the theoretical founders of the separation of church and state, a distinguishing feature of modern liberal democracies. Though Locke’s arguments for the merits of such separation have been subject to extensive investigation, his argument for its feasibility has remained relatively unexamined. This article argues that Locke was confident that separation of church and state can successfully be implemented in …
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