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Alzate on Religion and Self-Interest in Locke
A tension exists at the heart of liberal political theory: a society that encourages individual rights is not so good at motivating citizens to make necessary sacrifices for the community as a whole....
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Witte on Early Protestant Models of Church, State, and Marriage
From the excellent Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (whose content is still available for free) is this extremely interesting piece by John Witte (Emory), Church, State, and Marriage: Four Early...
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Waldron on Natural Law
Jeremy Waldron (NYU School of Law) has posted What is Natural Law Like? The abstract follows. “The State of Nature,” said John Locke, “has a Law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one.” But...
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Sowerby, “Making Toleration”
The Glorious Revolution is one of the most important events in the political and religious history of the English-speaking world, providing the context for liberal Lockean ideas of government that...
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Pritchard, “Religion in Public”
This November, Stanford University Press will publish Religion in Public: Locke’s Political Theology by Elizabeth A. Pritchard (Bowdoin College). The publisher’s description follows. John Locke’s...
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Schindler, “Freedom from Reality”
We’re late getting to this, but last year the Notre Dame Press released a new treatment of Locke’s concept of liberty, Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty, by D.C....
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A New Book on Locke, Religious Freedom, and Christianity
Scholars debate the extent to which Lockean ideas about religious freedom, which were so important to the Framers, are consistent with Christianity. An interesting-looking new book from the University...
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