Provides a thorough analysis and reassessment of Locke's original, heterodox, internally coherent version of Protestant Christianity.

John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with

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John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?

Locke lived at a time of heightened religious sensibility, and religious motives and theological beliefs were fundamental to his philosophical outlook. Here, Vi