The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes

Collins, Jeffrey R.

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“…work is so considerable as to constitute a difference in kind, not just degree. 78 Much hinges on his definition of the relevant corpus. The substantive thesis crumbles if one rejects Collins's view of the relationship between the core political-theory texts: if the three are related as a single project, in which religion is originally treated as a minor topic, then it cannot be accurate to characterize Leviathan as a "fundamentally religious" work.…”

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The Difficulties of Hobbes Interpretation

Baumgold¹

2008

Political Theory

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Idiosyncrasies of Hobbes's composition process, together with a paucity of reliable autobiographical materials and the norms of seventeenth-century manuscript production, render interpretation of his political theory particularly difficult and contentious. These difficulties are surveyed here under three headings: (1) the process of "serial" composition (meaning the production of multiple, often expanded, versions of a work), which was common in the period; (2) the relationship between Hobbes's three political-theory textsthe Elements of Law, De Cive, and Leviathan, which is basic to defining the textual embodiment of his theory, and controversial; and (3) his method of writing. I argue that Hobbes's composition process undercut his intention to produce a deductive, logical theory of politics and opened the door to inconsistency and muddle in his arguments.

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The Difficulties of Hobbes Interpretation

Baumgold¹

2008

Political Theory

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“…Even the most important political theorist of the mid seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes, agreed with him. During Hobbes's lifetime, his contemporaries saw his Leviathan , which was published in 1651, as an attempt ‘to justify the usurpation of Oliver Cromwell’ . Hobbes spent the rest of his life fighting these allegations, with little success.…”

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The Engagement controversy: a victory for the English republic

Tubb

2015

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In the fall of 1649, the newly created English commonwealth required that all men over the age of eighteen take an Engagement to demonstrate loyalty to the regime that had executed King Charles I. Historians have long argued that the Engagement was a political disaster for the commonwealth, as it provided its opponents with an opportunity to reveal the illegal and hypocritical nature of the new government. However, this article argues that the Engagement was actually a political success. Not only did people throughout England take the Engagement, but the royalists themselves acknowledged its achievement during the winter and spring of 1650.

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“…One key development in recent historiography has been to characterize the religious dynamic of the civil war as ‘Erastian’ – a term used to describe a process and ethos that granted the state complete control over religion. This article takes a contrasting approach, and argues that positions on the relationship of church and state were framed partly by the political circumstances of local context, and partly by an evolving discourse of sovereignty over religion. If we agree that the sixteen‐forties saw the wholesale collapse of the supremacy of the regal and episcopal church order, then it is possible to approach the religious politics of the Interregnum period as part of an effort at constitutional reconstruction.…”

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Rethinking church and state during the English Interregnum

Prior

2013

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This article offers a re‐examination of the concept of Erastianism as an explanatory tool in discussions of church and state. It focuses in particular on three texts – by Pierre du Moulin, Thomas Cobbet and John Milton – that took up the question of the nature of civil power in the sphere of religion. Based on this, the article argues that the term ‘Erastianism’ obscures the complexity and nuance of arguments about religious politics in the civil war period. It concludes by suggesting that we should instead consider these debates as contributions to discourse on civil religion.

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The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes

Cited by 36 publications

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The Difficulties of Hobbes Interpretation

The Difficulties of Hobbes Interpretation

The Engagement controversy: a victory for the English republic

Rethinking church and state during the English Interregnum

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