John Locke provided the point of origin for this viewpoint in his 1689 Second Treatise of Government. Locke contended that people form compacts creating civil governments to protect themselves ...

One of these biographers, Howard R. Penniman (1916-1995), wrote that Locke’s book The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695) and still more his Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul ...

In this declinist account, John Locke is often singled out as the lead villain. For Pierre Manent, Locke is the quintessential modern whose work is “central in every sense of the word” to ...

Over a year ago, French posted a biblical analysis of self-defense and discussed John Locke’s views, quoting from a long 2008 blog post of mine. As an atheist myself, I have only a modest ...

I think we give John Locke too much credit (“John Locke’s Lesson for the Taliban” by Mustafa Aykol, Houses of Worship, May 13).

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Self-published author John Locke has signed a deal with a ...