The Pretenses of Loyalty; Locke, Liberal Theory, and American Political Theology
ISBN: 9780199756544 | 0199756546
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/6/2011
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In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state? In this wide-ranging study, John Perry examines the roots of our thinking on religion and politics, placing the early-modern founders of liberalism in conversation with today's theologians and political philosophers. From the story of Antigone to debates about homosexuality and bans on religious attire, it is clear that liberalism's promise to solve all theo-political conflict is... MORE
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Lifting the Veil of Ignorance | |
| Liberalism's Turn to Loyalty | p. 17 |
| Harmonized Loyalties and Abstract Respect: Two Sides to the Tolerationist Coin | p. 49 |
| John Locke's Arguments for Toleration | |
| Locke's Early Work: From Vizor of Religion to Veil of Ignorance | p. 73 |
| A Letter concerning Toleration: Locke Turns to Loyalty and Beyond | p. 103 |
| "All at O... MORE | p. 127 |
| John Locke's America | |
| Refusing the Turn: Jeffersonian Separatists and Lockean Natural Lawyers | p. 143 |
| Locke and Loyalty in Contemporary Political Theology: Three Ways of Making the Turn | p. 165 |
| Conclusion | p. 201 |
| Notes | p. 217 |
| Bibliography | p. 247 |
| Index | p. 257 |
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