Christianity and Civil Religion in Hobbes’s Hobbes on Logic, or How to Deal with Aristotle’s LegacyHobbes on Language: Propositions, Truth, and AbsurdityAuthorization and Representation in Hobbes’s LeviathanHobbes (and Austin, and Aquinas) on Law as Command of the SovereignSovereign Jurisdiction, Territorial Rights, and Membership in HobbesChristianity and Civil Religion in Hobbes’s LeviathanPRINTED FROM OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE (www.oxfordhandbooks.com). The … 0000003907 00000 n While some details of his views were later modified, as 0000012135 00000 n

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This volume provides the first collection of essays dedicated to the complex and rich intersections between Hobbes’s political and religious thought.

His father, also calledThomas Hobbes, was a somewhat disreputable local clergyman.Hobbes’s seventeenth-century biographer John Aubrey tells thestory of how “The old vicar Hobs was a good fellow and had beenat cards Saturday all night, and at church in his sleep he cries out‘Trafells is troumps’” [i.e., clubs are trump… 0000002196 00000 n 0000010815 00000 n

This chapter discusses the account of Christianity found in Sarah Mortimer is University Lecturer and Official Student and Tutor in Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford. 0000008743 00000 n Hobbes was an unusual Christian, and one that recognized the potential power of the Christian story to strengthen (as well as to undermine) commonwealths. Deuxièmement, l’ignorance des causes du bien et du mal qui nous arrivent.

Hobbes gives an account rooted in the nature and capacities of man and religious references are typically reduced to those terms. 0000100054 00000 n 0000007493 00000 n < Hobbes on Logic, or How to Deal with Aristotle’s LegacyHobbes on Language: Propositions, Truth, and AbsurdityAuthorization and Representation in Hobbes’s LeviathanHobbes (and Austin, and Aquinas) on Law as Command of the SovereignSovereign Jurisdiction, Territorial Rights, and Membership in HobbesChristianity and Civil Religion in Hobbes’s LeviathanPRINTED FROM OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE (www.oxfordhandbooks.com).

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Hobbes both professed official conformity to the doctrines of the Anglican Church and a vehement anticlericalism throughout his long life. 0000000016 00000 n

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