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John Locke:
An Historical Analysis of His Thought and Life Intro to Church History Dec. 10/99 Box #260 John Locke (1632-1704) is perhaps one of the most influential philosophers the world has ever seen. His writings became the basis of the eighteenth century enlightenment reason. Basil Willey describes Locke’s influence as such, “Locke stands at the end of the seventeenth century, and at the beginning of the eighteenth; his work is at once a summing-up of seventeenth century conclusions and the starting-point for eighteenth century enquiries.”[1] This man was consumed with his ideas of liberty, freedom, and natural or inalienable rights. He has been said to be, the Father of the American Revolution, which is thoroughly Lockean in its ideas and emphases. Locke heavily influenced Voltaire, the French philosopher, as well as Rousseau, Jefferson, and Franklin. He is the locus of every liberal[2] philosopher in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Thus, we see that Locke’s influence is startling. An examination of his views on epistemology, religion, and church-state relations will be given, in their relation to the church and Christianity. Locke lived through some of the most tumultuous times in England, filled with religious squabbling, revolutions, and was himself the locus of philosophical and theological controversies. He triumphed his thoughts on reason as the final arbiter of truth and instigated some of the first ideas of critical interpretation of the Bible. He pioneered a simplistic Christian faith, over and against the scholastic Calvinism and Reformation theology of his day. Locke, while being a part of his historical context, was one of those few individuals who seemed to be a revolutionary figure in himself. The man himself was born August 29, 1632 in Wrington, a village of Somerset. He was born into a Puritan household. Locke’s mother died when he was only 22 years of age. The knowledge on ... Please login to view comments from other users.
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