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Bible interpretation and the constitution of the Christian Commonwealth in Hobbes's Leviathan, Part III
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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:45 authored by Mark SomosFew aspects of Hobbes’s thought received as much recent attention as his religion; yet there are no comprehensive analyses of Hobbes’s biblical exegesis. To illustrate a possible method and the value of such studies, this article traces Hobbes’s strings of references in Leviathan, Part III. It shows that despite ascribing the authority to finalise, censor, and otherwise control biblical editions to the Sovereign, Hobbes preferred the Geneva to the King James Bible. The article also considers some implications of Hobbes’s Bible interpretations for the constitutional design of his Christian Commonwealth, including representation, the Christian Sovereign, anticlericalism, and the Second Coming.
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
Storia del pensiero politicoISSN
2279-9818Publisher
Società editrice il MulinoExternal DOI
Issue
2Volume
2015Page range
175-202Department affiliated with
- Law Publications
Full text available
- No
Peer reviewed?
- Yes