It is a good bet he made use of Locke’s ability to employ a grammar of natural rights grounded in biblical revelation. Unlike Thomas Hobbes, for example, Locke’s “state of nature” was ...

The Founders weep in their graves. The Founders were scholars of both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Hobbes argued that the state of nature — primitive society — revolved around a war of ...

In the course of reading authors such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Marx, students will study the way Christian conceptions of freedom and dignity of the individual person inform, and in some cases ...