We know that Locke spent his years of exile between 1683 and 1689 in Holland, and that during his sojourn in this welcoming country he came into contact with liberal Calvinist theologians, with the Huguenots of the Refuge and with the Socinians exiled from various cities in central Europe. We know of the important readings and reflections he was engaged with in those years, of his completion and revision of previous drafts of his works (such as the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the Second Treatise of Government) and his penning of new ones (including the Epistola de tolerantia). Finally, there remain some questions about the affinities with certain aspects of English Unitarian thought and continental Socinianism, all of which are not unconnected with the subject of the resurrection, but which must necessarily here remain in the background.23 Nonetheless, not only had Locke devoted many years of meditation to theological-exegetic matters, starting from after his return to England in the 1690s--in particular to The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695) and to A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St Paul (1706)--but even the very first writings and the reply to Filmer, in addition to all the commentaries and notes published in essays dealing with Locke's thought, refer back to this question of interpretation of the Bible.

Locke's Biblical Hermeneutics on Bodily Resurrection

Simonutti L
2019

Abstract

We know that Locke spent his years of exile between 1683 and 1689 in Holland, and that during his sojourn in this welcoming country he came into contact with liberal Calvinist theologians, with the Huguenots of the Refuge and with the Socinians exiled from various cities in central Europe. We know of the important readings and reflections he was engaged with in those years, of his completion and revision of previous drafts of his works (such as the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the Second Treatise of Government) and his penning of new ones (including the Epistola de tolerantia). Finally, there remain some questions about the affinities with certain aspects of English Unitarian thought and continental Socinianism, all of which are not unconnected with the subject of the resurrection, but which must necessarily here remain in the background.23 Nonetheless, not only had Locke devoted many years of meditation to theological-exegetic matters, starting from after his return to England in the 1690s--in particular to The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695) and to A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St Paul (1706)--but even the very first writings and the reply to Filmer, in addition to all the commentaries and notes published in essays dealing with Locke's thought, refer back to this question of interpretation of the Bible.
2019
Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e scientifico moderno - ISPF
978-3-030-19901-2
Locke
resurrection
socinianism
arminianism
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