Christianity, Antiquity, and Enlightenment - Interpretations of Locke

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: A Portrait of John Locke as a Christian Virtuoso*

Introduction

The Character of a Christian Virtuoso

The Origin of the Character and Its Idea

Locke: The Making of a Christian Virtuoso

Christian Virtuosity in Locke’s Essay

Chapter 2: Locke’s Theology, 1694–1704*

Introduction

Theological Stock-Taking: ‘Adversaria Theologica’

The Reasonableness of Christianity

Interpreting St Paul

Late Theological Reflections

Summary and Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B

Chapter 3: Locke’s Proof of the Divine Authority of Scripture*

Introduction: The Problem

The Origin of Locke’s Proof of the Divine Authority of Scripture

Locke’s Employment of the Proof

Conclusion

Chapter 4: Locke’s Christology as a Key to Understanding His philosophy*

Introduction

Locke’s Christology

Natural Theology, Christology, and the Essay

Christology in Two Treatises and Epistola De Tolerantia

Conclusion

Appendix

Chapter 5: Locke on St Paul, Messianic Secrecy, and the Consummation of Faith

Introduction: Christian Virtuosity and the Locke’s Thought

Locke’s Preface to St Paul

The Problem of Messianic Secrecy

St Paul and Consummate Faith

Conclusion

Chapter 6: Locke’s ‘Dubia circa Philosophiam Orientalem’ and the Reception of Kabbala Denudata in England During the Sevente

Introduction

Occasion and Context

The Adumbratio and Its Commentator

Reception

Text (MS Locke c. 27, fols. 75–7)

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Anima Messiæ

Lumen

Ascendere & Descendere

God

Deus

Creatio

Lapsus

Animas

Mundus Visibilis

[77r]C. 7 Animae Praeexistentia

C 8 9 De personis DevinitatisAnimarum lapsus c. 9

Restitutio animarum c. 10

Translation

[75r] Doubts about Oriental Philosophy

Soul of the Messiah

Light

Ascending & Descending

God

God

Creation

Fall

Souls

The Visible World

[77r]Ch. 7 The Pre-existence of Souls

Ch. 8 9 Concerning the persons of the divinityThe Fall of Souls Ch. 9

The Restitution of Souls Ch. 10 <&11>

Appendix

Lexicon of the Syncatabasis 7 88

Caballa 88

Chapter 7: Reflections on Locke’s Platonism*

Introduction

Objections to ‘Locke’s Platonism’

Locke’s Encounters with Platonism

Conclusion

Chapter 8: Aspects of Stoicism in Locke’s Philosophy*

Introduction

Reason

God and Nature

Reason and the Origin and Growth of Knowledge

The Foundations of Morality and the Law of Nature

Reason Enlarged80

Reason Enlarged or Diminished?

Chapter 9: Locke Against the Epicureans

Introduction

Locke’s Proof of the Existence of God

The Foundations of Epicurean Physics

Preliminary Considerations

The Bare Argument27

Presentation of the Argument

Prologue (Essay IV. x. 1)

The First Argument Proving ‘That There Is an Eternal, Most Powerful, and Most Knowing Being’ (Essay IV. x. 2–6)

Anti-Cartesian Interlude (Essay IV. x. 7)

The Argument Revisited (Essay IV. x. 8–12)

The First Supplementary Argument Proving That God Is Not a Material Being (Essay IV. x. 13–17)

The Second Supplementary Argument Proving That Matter Is Not Co-eternal with God, but That God Created All Things, Bodies and

Locke’s Divine Physics

Conclusion

Chapter 10: Locke’s Religious Thinking and His Politics*

Introduction

Personal Identity and Free Agency

Political and Religious Motivations for Toleration

A Natural and a Supernatural Adam

Summary and Conclusion

Chapter 11: Catharine Cockburn’s Enlightenment*

Introduction

A Moralist’s Religion

Defender of Locke

Cockburn’s Enlightenment Philosophy

Conclusion

Index