Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy : Machiavelli to Tocqueville /

Inspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of political life needed to be resolved in favor of the political, and they attempted to recast and delimit traditional Christian teaching to serve and stabilize political life accord...

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Otros Autores: Yaffe, Martin D. (Editor , Contribuidor), Vance, Kevin (Contribuidor), Szymkowiak, Aaron (Contribuidor), Shiffman, Mark (Contribuidor), Ray, John (Contribuidor), Radasanu, Andrea (Contribuidor), Quinn, Timothy Sean (Contribuidor), Muñoz, Vincent Phillip (Contribuidor), Herold, Aaron L. (Contribuidor), Frankel, Steven (Editor , Contribuidor), Carrese, Paul (Contribuidor), Behnegar, Nasser (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Machiavelli, Christianity, and Civil Religion
  • 2. How Francis Bacon's New Organon Co-opts Biblical Theology for His New Atlantis
  • 3. Leviathan's Reconquest of the Christian Person for the State
  • 4. Will Wonders Never Cease? Spinoza's Critique of Miracles
  • 5. Liberalism and Christianity: Locke's Use of the Bible in the Second Treatise
  • 6. Montesquieu's Machiavellian Account of Civil Religion
  • 7. Montesquieu and Christianity in the American Project: The Moderate Spirit of Religious Liberty
  • 8. Hume on Church Establishments: History, Moderation, and Liberty
  • 9. Rousseau's Civil Religion "Problem"
  • 10. How the Founders Agreed About Religious Freedom but Disagreed About the Separation of Church and State
  • 11. Tocqueville on Religion and Democratic Character: Equality, Mediocrity, and Greatness
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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