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About the Author
McDonald Post-Doctoral Fellow for Christian Ethics and Public Life, Christ Church, Oxford
Reviews
a perspicacious diagnosis of a most pressing problem. In short, it is a clear provocation that challenges many of the neat theopolitical categories we have come to assume, and as such, it discomfits and disabuses most excellently. * Paul Martens, Journal of Church and State *
This elegant and tightly-reasoned tract offers a striking new reading of John Locke's theories of church and state, religion and politics, conscience and command. Though Locke is often seen solely as a secular prophet of modern liberalism, Perry shows that he is also a subtle political theologian who saw the need to harmonize our spiritual and temporal loyalties in public and private life. If Perry is right on Locke, our conventional constitutional histories and political theories will need ample revision, and Perry shows us the way. * John Witte, Jr., Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University *
John Perry's study offers a fresh and rigorous exploration of the Lockean inheritance of contemporary politics, focusing particularly on the US political experience * Journal of SJT *
Have you ever wondered whether it's possible for a liberal democratic state to accommodate all the diverse loyalties of its citizens, especially all their diverse religious loyalties? If so, then this is the book for you. In a fresh reading of the entirety of John Locke's writings on toleration, Perry shows how Locke moved from an anti-toleration position to the view that almost all religious loyalties should be tolerated and can be tolerated if we establish 'just bounds' between religion and a government. Skillfully negotiating the vast literature on this topic, Perry argues that no liberal theorist has ever succeeded in formulating these just bounds, and that it's a mistake to think in terms of a boundary between a neutral state and the loyalties of the citizens. He concludes by asking, 'What then?' Altogether an illuminating, thoroughly informed, compelling and bracing argument. * Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199756544
Author John Perry
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 544g
Dimensions(mm) 165mm * 236mm * 33mm