the first ever collection of Locke`s writings on religion and theology
makes many of Locke`s unpublished manuscripts accessible for the first time
useful introduction and editorial commentary
will be an important source and reference-point for history of philosophy/religion/theology

John Locke: Writings on Religion brings together for the first time a broad selection of John Locke`s writings on religion and theology, some of which have never been published before.
Locke was a founder and shaper of modern thought and society, and his principal works are among the most influential ever written. Much that he wrote is either about religion or touches on it, which is not surprising, for he lived and worked during a time of heightened religious sensibility. Subjects that today would be considered to have little or no bearing on religion were viewed by him and his contemporaries within a theological frame: the nature of knowledge and belief, the origin of ideas, the nature of language, metaphysical questions concerning substance, personal identity, the relation of mind and body, the foundation of morality, the origin of civil society, toleration. A right understanding of Locke requires that all of his opinions be viewed within this religious frame.
Read together, and in context, these writings illustrate the deep and pervasive religious motivation in Locke`s thought. They are key texts in intellectual history.

Preface
Chronology of the Life and Times of John Locke
Introduction
1. Theology, its sources, and the Pragmatics of Assent
2. Morality and Religion
"Of Ethick in General"
"Ethica 92"
"Sacerdos 98"
3. "Adversaria Theologica 94"
4. Inspiration, Revelation, Scripture, and Faith
"Immediate Inspiration"
"Scriptura Sacra"
A Discourse of Miracles
"An Essay for the Understanding of St Paul`s Epistles by Consulting St Paul himself
5. The Nature and Authority of the Church
"Infallibility"
"Critical Notes Upon Edward Stillingfleet`s Mischief and Unreasonableness of Separation - Extracts
"Ecclesia"
"Error 98"
6. The Reasonableness of Christianity
The Reasonableness of Christianity as delivered in the Scriptures
A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity &c
7. Fall and Redemption
"Peccatum originale 92"
"Homo ante et post lapsus"
"Resurrection et quae sequitur"
"On the Priesthood of Christ: Analysis of Hebrews"
"Christianae Religionis Synopsis"
Appendix: A list of theological place in An Essay concerning Human
Understanding
Notes, Bibliography, Index