Publisher's Synopsis
Locke offers clarity and generous habits of mind, as well as an empirical, rational, businesslike perspective on the gospels that provide not only an insight into his own time, but into the thinking that found action in the American War for Independence. Locke's position of Reason Above All is reflective of the rise of the Enlightenment, capitalism and the European middle classes.;"The Reasonableness of Christianity" is one of the most interesting and accessible of Christian apologetics.;John Locke (1632-1704) is a Western philosopher whose thought is generally associated with the doctrines of empiricism and classical liberalism. He is most famous for his "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" and "The Second Treatise on Government".
