Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Luisa Simonutti

   Pages 1-8

3. Comparison of the Hermeneutics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. The Religious Way of John Locke from the Essay to the Paraphrase (1690–1704)

      • Henning Graf Reventlow

      Pages 11-20

   3. Boyle’s Influence on Locke’s “Study of the Way to Salvation”

      • Agostino Lupoli

      Pages 21-54

   4. Locke’s Biblical Hermeneutics on Bodily Resurrection

      • Luisa Simonutti

      Pages 55-74

4. Hermeneutics, a Method for Belief

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Locke’s Hermeneutics of Existence and His Representation of Christianity

      • Victor Nuovo

      Pages 77-103

   3. Hermeneutics and the Reasonableness of Belief

      • Jean-Michel Vienne

      Pages 105-119

   4. The Thread of Discourse: Primary and Secondary Paraphrase in Locke’s Hermeneutics

      • Raffaele Russo

      Pages 121-141

   5. “An Intent and Careful Reading.” How John Locke Read His Bible

      • Justin Champion

      Pages 143-160

5. Interpretations of Locke’s Biblical Hermeneutics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Spinoza, Locke, and Biblical Interpretation

      • Kim Ian Parker

      Pages 163-188

   3. Locke’s Influence on the Exegesis of Peirce, Hallett, and Benson

      • Arthur W. Wainwright

      Pages 189-205

   4. St. Paul’s Epistles from Covenants to Order in a Lockean Context

      • Giambattista Gori

      Pages 207-228

   5. Figures of Jesus from Locke to the Enlightenment

      • Gian Mario Cazzaniga

      Pages 229-242

   6. Locke’s Pauline Hermeneutics: A Critical Review

      • Maria-Cristina Pitassi

      Pages 243-256

6. Back Matter

   Pages 257-266

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The volume presents illuminating research carried out by international scholars of Locke and the early modern period. The essays address the theoretical and historical contexts of Locke’s analytical methodology and come together in a multidisciplinary approach that sets biblical hermeneutics in relation to his philosophical, historical, and political thought, and to the philological and doctrinal culture of his time. The contextualization of Locke’s biblical hermeneutics within the contemporary reading of the Bible contributes to the analysis of the figure of Christ and the role of Paul’s theology in political and religious thought from the seventeenth century to the Enlightenment. The volume sheds light on how Locke was appreciated by his contemporaries as a biblical interpreter and exegete. It also offers a reconsideration that overarches interpretations confined within specific disciplinary ambits to address Locke’s thought in a global historic context.

• Ambiguity of the Thought
• Analysis of metaphysical problems
• Biblical Hermeneutics
• Biblical Interpretation
• Bodily resurrection
• Conscience and Scripture
• Ecclesiastical historians
• Exegesis
• Hermeneutical formation
• Historians of philosophy
• John Locke’s thought
• Locke and Biblical Interpretation
• Locke and Resurrection
• Locke and salvation
• Locke’s philosophy
• Paulinian Hermeneutics
• Religious Way of John Locke
• Representation of Christianity
• Spinoza and Biblical Interpretation
• Toleration in John Locke

• ISPF-National Research Council, Milano-Napoli, Italy

  Luisa Simonutti

Luisa Simonutti is senior research fellow in philosophy at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Milan. Her interests cover numerous aspects of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century philosophy and religion, Spinoza, Locke, Bayle and Le Clerc, and minor figures relevant in the historical philosophical field. Her research focus on the political-theological debate in modern times, on translation and on the cultural transfer between Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. She is the editor of numerous books including, Religious obedience and political resistance in the early modern world Jewish, Christian and Islamic philosophers addressing the Bible (Thurnhout: Brepols, 2014), Le masque de l’écriture. Philosophie et traduction de la Renaissance aux Lumières (Geneva: Droz, 2015), Barbarie in età moderna e contemporanea (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2018) and John Locke: les idées et les choses. Avec le manuscrit inédit 'Notes upon Mr. John Lock’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding' de William Whiston fils (Milan: Mimésis, 2019).

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