Overview
- Offers a philosophical, historical, philological and doctrinal discussion of Locke’s biblical hermeneutics
- Provides an analysis based upon a meticulous bibliographical, historical and philological knowledge
- Studies the influence of Locke’s biblical exegesis on James Pierce, Joseph Hallet, George Benson, Thomas Taylor, and on Enlightenment
Part of the book series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées (ARCH, volume 226)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Comparison of the Hermeneutics
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Hermeneutics, a Method for Belief
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Interpretations of Locke’s Biblical Hermeneutics
Keywords
- 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
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics
Book Subtitle: Conscience and Scripture
Editors: Luisa Simonutti
Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19903-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19901-2Published: 13 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20509-6Published: 20 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19903-6Published: 04 December 2019
Series ISSN: 0066-6610
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 266
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies, general, Modern Philosophy