Overview
Allen Jayne analyzes the ideology of the Declaration of Independence -- and its implications -- by going back to the sources of Jefferson's ideas: Bolingbroke, Kames, Reid, and Locke. He concludes that the Declaration must be read as an attack on two claims of absolute authority: that of government over its subjects and of religion over the minds of men. Today's world is more secular than Jefferson's, and the importance of philosophical theology in eighteenth-century critical thought must be recognized in order to understand fully and completely the Declaration's implications. Jayne addresses this need by putting religion back into the discussion.
- | Author: Allen Jayne
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Nov 16, 2000
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0813190037
- | ISBN-13: 9780813190037
