LEADER 04618oam 2200685I 450 001 9910786393803321 005 20230124190831.0 010 $a1-134-04746-0 010 $a0-203-52949-9 010 $a1-134-04739-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203529492 035 $a(CKB)2670000000353001 035 $a(EBL)1181025 035 $a(OCoLC)842409029 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000905794 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12441439 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000905794 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10926682 035 $a(PQKB)11490343 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1181025 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1181025 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10691798 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL485204 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB131959 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000353001 100 $a20180706e20131989 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aReligion, secularization and political thought $eThomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill /$fedited by James E. Crimmins 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (215 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion ;$vVolume 11 300 $a"First published in 1989"--T.p. verso. 311 $a1-138-99724-2 311 $a0-415-82233-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Orginal Title Page; Orginal Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1. The religious and the secular in the work of Thomas Hobbes; Church and state; Revelation and Reason; Overlapping spheres; The divine law of reason; Reason and scriptural exegesis; Theology and the 'new science'; Conclusion; Notes; 2. John Locke: Socinian or natural law theorist?; The contemporary testimony; Hobbism; Socinianism; Reconstructing Locke's thought; Proofs of natural law; The argument from probability; Discovery and promulgation 327 $aExploring alternativesPossible interpretations; Dishonest Locke; Honest Locke; Inconsistent Locke; Acknowledgement; Notes; 3. The religious, the secular and the worldly: Scotland 1680-1800; The impact of the new philosophy; Theology and the practice or religion; Empiricism in natural and moral philosophy; Religion in a rational world; Notes; 4. Science and secularization in Hume, Smith and Bentham; The genealogy or 'scientism'; Scepticism versus certainty; A thoroughly secularized social science; Bentham's constructivism; Notes; 5. Edmund Burke and John Wesley: the legacy of Locke 327 $aLockeian epistemologyLockeian contractarianism; Wesley and Burke as Lockeian theorists; Notes; 6. Religion, utility and politics: Bentham versus Paley; Competing exponents of utility; The religious version of the doctrine of utility; Paley's conservatism; A secular utilitarian society; A paradoxical conclusion; Acknowledgement; Notes; 7. From God to man? F. D. Maurice and changing ideas of God and man; Of God, hell and salvation; Human nature and the relation of man to God; The law or fellowship; Ideas or God and man; Notes; 8. J. S. Mill and the religion of humanity 327 $aA human truth disguised in theological formThe religious context or political thought; The character of Mill's liberalism; Re-interpreting Mill; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe increasing secularization of political thought between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries has often been noted, but rarely described in detail. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the relationship between religious beliefs, dogma and secular ideas in British political philosophy from Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill.During this period, Britain experienced the advance of natural science, the spread of education and other social improvements, and reforms in the political realm. These changes forced religion to account for itself and to justify its e 410 0$aRoutledge library editions.$pPhilosophy of religion. 606 $aReligion and politics$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aSecularism$xHistory 606 $aPolitical science$zGreat Britain$xHistory 615 0$aReligion and politics$xHistory. 615 0$aSecularism$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical science$xHistory. 676 $a201.650941 701 $aCrimmins$b James E.$f1953-$0677442 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786393803321 996 $aReligion, secularization and political thought$93683594 997 $aUNINA