Christianity, Antiquity, and Enlightenment

• List of Abbreviations.- Introduction.- 1. A portrait of Locke as Christian Virtuoso.-2. Locke’s Theology, 1694–1704.- 3. Locke’s Proof of the divine authority of Scripture.- 4. Locke’s Christology as a Key to understanding his Philosophy.- 5. Locke on St Paul, Messianic Secrecy and the Consummation of Faith.- 6. Locke’s ‘Dubia circa Philosophiam Orientalem’ and the reception of Kabbala Denudata  in England during the Seventeenth Century.- 7. Reflections on Locke’s Platonism.- 8. Aspects of Stoicism in Locke’s Philosophy.- 9. Locke against the Epicureans.- 10. Locke’s Religious Thinking and his Politics.- 11. Catharine Cockburn’s Enlightenment.

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