![]() To read an interview with the author about the book on, see here: ![]() God, Locke, and Liberty suggests how a better understanding of Locke’s political theology could calm the storms of religious violence that once again threaten international peace and security. ![]() Like no thinker before him, Locke forged an alliance between liberal political theory and a gospel of divine mercy. In this, Locke drew great strength from an earlier religious reform movement, namely, the Christian humanist tradition. Loconte argues that Locke’s vision of a tolerant and pluralistic society was based on a radical reinterpretation of the life and teachings of Jesus. In God, Locke, and Liberty: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in the West, historian Joseph Loconte offers a groundbreaking study of Locke’s Letter, challenging the notion that decisive arguments for freedom of conscience appeared only after the onset of the secular Enlightenment. His response was A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), arguably the most important defense of religious freedom in the Western tradition. ![]() “I no sooner perceived myself in the world,” wrote English philosopher John Locke, “than I found myself in a storm.” The storm of which Locke spoke was the maelstrom of religious fanaticism and intolerance that was tearing apart the social fabric of European society. ![]()
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