God, Locke, and Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God, Locke, and Liberty write by Joseph Loconte. This book was released on 2014-02-27. God, Locke, and Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “I no sooner perceived myself in the world,” wrote English philosopher John Locke, “than I found myself in a storm.” The storm of which Locke spoke was the maelstrom of religious fanaticism and intolerance that was tearing apart the social fabric of European society. His response was A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), arguably the most important defense of religious freedom in the Western tradition. In God, Locke, and Liberty: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in the West, historian Joseph Loconte offers a groundbreaking study of Locke’s Letter, challenging the notion that decisive arguments for freedom of conscience appeared only after the onset of the secular Enlightenment. Loconte argues that Locke’s vision of a tolerant and pluralistic society was based on a radical reinterpretation of the life and teachings of Jesus. In this, Locke drew great strength from an earlier religious reform movement, namely, the Christian humanist tradition. Like no thinker before him, Locke forged an alliance between liberal political theory and a gospel of divine mercy. God, Locke, and Liberty suggests how a better understanding of Locke’s political theology could calm the storms of religious violence that once again threaten international peace and security. To read an interview with the author about the book on Patheos.com, see here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2015/01/10/under-locke-and-key/
Liberty, the God That Failed
Liberty, the God That Failed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liberty, the God That Failed write by Christopher A. Ferrara. This book was released on 2013-03. Liberty, the God That Failed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What has gone wrong with the grand American experiment in "ordered liberty"? The liberal's answer is that America has failed to live up to its full promise of inclusiveness and equality--likely the result of corporate greed and white male ruling elites. The mainstream conservative or libertarian reply points to the Warren Court, the 1960s, or a loss of Constitutional rectitude. Christopher Ferrara, in Liberty, the God That Failed, offers an entirely different answer. In a counter-narrative of unique power and scope, he unmasks the order promised as a sham; the liberty guaranteed, a chimera. In his telling, the false god of a new political order--Liberty--was born in thought long before America's founding, and gained increasing devotion as it slowly amassed power during the first century of the nation's existence. Today it reveals its full might, as we bear the weight of its oppressive decrees, and experience the emptiness of the secular order it imposes upon us. The secular state has constructed a "myth of religious violence" to mask its own violent origins and ongoing displays of force. Ferrara destroys this myth with a relentless uncovering of truths hidden by both liberal and conservative/libertarian accounts of what has gone wrong. In this brilliant retelling of American history and political life, the author asks us to open our eyes to harsh realities, but also to the possibilities for a rightly ordered society and the true liberty that can still be ours.
Liberty in the Things of God
Liberty in the Things of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liberty in the Things of God write by Robert Louis Wilken. This book was released on 2019-04-09. Liberty in the Things of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external force, laying a foundation on which later generations would build. Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin. They took form before the Enlightenment through the labors of men and women of faith who believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. This provocative book, drawing on writings from the early Church as well as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reminds us of how "the meditations of the past were fitted to affairs of a later day."
John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible
John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible write by Yechiel M. Leiter. This book was released on 2018-06-28. John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?
Two Treatises of Government
Two Treatises of Government - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Treatises of Government write by John Locke. This book was released on 1967. Two Treatises of Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
