Hobbes and the Liberalization of Christianity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6238613 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John W Seaman (0000-0003-1620-3534, McMaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-246 |
| Publication date | 1999-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423900010477 |
| OpenAlex | W2103721581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Hobbes regarded traditional Christianity as one of the leading threats to the preservation of civil peace. This article argues that he responded to this threat by developing an innovative reinterpretation of Christianity designed to tame it from within. This reinterpretation involved the reshaping of leading Christian doctrines around the same liberal principles that underlie his conception of political authority, the natural law principles of equality of right and inalienable rights. Although this political “liberalization” of Christianity may well have enhanced the prospects of civil peace, it did so by undermining doctrines central to Christianity's biblical roots
Aesthetics · Christianity · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · Liberalization · Natural law · Political science · Politics · Reinterpretation · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Religious studies · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
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Behemoth or The Long Parliament
Justifying Toleration
James Madison on Religious Liberty
Democracy in America
The Divine Politics of Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes on Public Charity & the Prevention of Idleness
Hobbes and the Equality of All Under the One
On the Sovereign Authorization
Hobbesian Fear
Give to Caesar That Which Is Caesars
The Rhetoric of Leviathan
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |