caa a22 4500 388107073 CHVBK 20180307125342.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900010477 doi S0008423900010477 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900010477 Seaman John W. McMaster University Hobbes and the Liberalization of Christianity [Elektronische Daten] [John W. Seaman] Hobbes regarded traditional Christianity as one of the leading threats to the preservation of civil peace. This article argues that he responded to this threat by developing an innovative reinterpretation of Christianity designed to tame it from within. This reinterpretation involved the reshaping of leading Christian doctrines around the same liberal principles that underlie his conception of political authority, the natural law principles of equality of right and inalienable rights. Although this political "liberalization” of Christianity may well have enhanced the prospects of civil peace, it did so by undermining doctrines central to Christianity's biblical roots. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1999 Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/2(1999-06), 227-246 0008-4239 32:2<227 1999 32 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010477 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010477 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Seaman John W. McMaster University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/2(1999-06), 227-246 0008-4239 32:2<227 1999 32 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge