Luisa Simonutti - Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics: Conscience and Scripture

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Luisa Simonutti

Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics

Conscience and Scripture

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Luisa Simonutti

ISPF-National Research Council, Milano-Napoli, Italy

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Contents

Luisa Simonutti

Part IComparison of the Hermeneutics

Henning Graf Reventlow

Agostino Lupoli

Luisa Simonutti

Part IIHermeneutics, a Method for Belief

Victor Nuovo

Jean-Michel Vienne

Raffaele Russo

Justin Champion

Part IIIInterpretations of Lockes Biblical Hermeneutics

Kim Ian Parker

Arthur W. Wainwright

Giambattista Gori

Gian Mario Cazzaniga

Maria-Cristina Pitassi

The volume presents the illuminating research carried out by international scholars of Lockes thought and the early modern period in general. The essays address the theoretical and historical contexts of Lockes analytical methodology and come together in a multidisciplinary approach that sets biblical hermeneutics in relation to his philosophical, historical, and political thought, and to the philological and doctrinal culture of his time. Centring on the last decade of Lockes life and the publication of his posthumous works, these studies illustrate the influence that his interpretation of the Bible and the Christian tradition had on eighteenth-century thinkers and controversialists. The contextualization of Lockes biblical hermeneutics within the contemporary reading of the Bible contributes to the analysis of the figure of Christ and the role of Paul s theology in political and religious thought from the seventeenth century to the Enlightenment. The volume sheds light on how Locke was appreciated by his contemporaries as a biblical interpreter and exegete. It also offers a reconsideration that overarches interpretations confined within specific disciplinary ambits and his own intellectual biography to address Lockes thought in a global historic context.

John Lockes encounter with Dutch culture had a great impact on his epistemological, political and exegetic thought. The development of philological and scholarly studies, Spinozas philosophy, and the contribution of Huguenot exiles and ultramontane refugees represented sources of constant inspiration for his work. Lockes concern, nourished by contemporary biblical exegesis, was not merely to fulfil the duties of a Christian man of his own time, nor simply to address the characteristic issues of religious thinking with the critical curiositas of a savant. Above all, Locke was concerned with a method and a model for reading biblical and Pauline texts that had been engaging him constantly over the years and to which he intended to devote himself after his definitive return to England .