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  • Chapter 10 - “A Rhapsody of Heresies”: The Scriptural Politics of On the Citizen

  • Edited by Robin Douglass, King's College London, Johan Olsthoorn, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book:
    Hobbes's <I>On the Citizen</I>
    Published online:
    15 November 2019
    Print publication:
    05 December 2019, pp 180-198

  • Summary

    This chapter identifies and explains three important changes in Hobbes’s religious arguments from The Elements of Law to On the Citizen. First, Hobbes comes to focus more on religious and scriptural matters, devoting a greater amount of space to them in On the Citizen than in Elements of Law. Second, Hobbes’s argumentative strategy evolves. He multiplies independent lines of argument for the same central claims. Third, the content of Hobbes’s arguments changes. In On the Citizen, he takes a Hebraic turn, offering a new and detailed discussion of the Israelite kingdom of God and relying far more heavily on scriptural evidence from the Old Testament. In each case, these changes can be explained by the changing political context in England and Hobbes’s increasing sensitivity to the challenges of religious pluralism.