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Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics

Conscience and Scripture

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  • © 2019

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Editors:
  1. Luisa Simonutti

    1. ISPF-National Research Council, Milano-Napoli, Italy

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  • 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

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Luisa Simonutti

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).

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