Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A third way of religious freedom? Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Backus, and the struggle for the American soul; Isaac Backus; Thomas Jefferson; Has Jefferson triumphed?; 2 Hobbes and the new minimalist Christianity; The problem of supernatural religion; The natural seeds of religion; Religion and the state of nature; Hobbesian Christianity; The natural seeds of religious indifference; 3 Locke and the political theology of toleration; I.; A Letter Concerning Toleration
An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingWhat we can know of (a) God; Revelation; Scripture; The Reasonableness of Christianity; II.; The true ground of morality; Religious transformation and the new morality; III.; 4Tocqueville on the democratization of American religion; The Puritan point of departure; The question of the essential relation between democracy and religion; Democracy as a secularizing force; What ought to be religion ́s natural state in our day; The power of religion in America; The problem of individualism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Examines a unified reinterpretation of Christianity by Hobbes, Locke, and Jefferson and compares that to de Tocqueville's analysis of changes
