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John Locke got so fixated on King David's geneology he never learned about Jesus
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Date: January 3rd, 2025 11:52 PM Author: fragrant box office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658894&forum_id=2Elisa#48516673) |
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Date: January 4th, 2025 12:02 AM Author: fragrant box office In John Locke’s Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible, Yechiel Leiter (full disclosure: a friend and neighbor) convincingly argues that the Bible heavily influenced Locke’s thought. Since Locke’s work, especially his Second Treatise on Government, is widely considered to have significantly influenced America’s founding fathers, this is further evidence that when people talk about America’s “Judeo-Christian” roots, the “Judeo” half is no mere courtesy. Judaism in fact contributed significantly to America’s political traditions.
Nevertheless, this raises an obvious question. Locke and his fellow 17th-century political Hebraists (including John Selden, Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes) were Christians, not Jews. So why, in developing their political thought, did they rely far more on the Hebrew Bible than the Christian New Testament?
https://www.jns.org/john-locke-the-bible-and-the-western-political-tradition/ |