Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration
The Political Thought of William Penn
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 July 2016
- ISBN 9780190271190
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 160x236x22 mm
- Weight 598 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration, Andrew Murphy shows that, despite widespread scholarly neglected, William Penn was a sophisticated political thinker who played a crucial role in the emergence of religious liberty and remains a singular, if often overlooked, figure in the history of liberty of conscience.
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In a seventeenth-century English landscape populated with towering political and philosophical figures like Hobbes, Harrington, Cromwell, Milton, and Locke, William Penn remains in many ways a man apart. Yet despite being widely neglected by scholars, he was a sophisticated political thinker who contributed mightily to the theory and practice of religious liberty in the early modern Atlantic world. In this long-awaited intellectual biography of William Penn, Andrew R. Murphy presents a nuanced portrait of this remarkable entrepreneur, philosopher, Quaker, and politician.
Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration focuses on the major political episodes that attracted William Penn's sustained attention as a political thinker and actor: the controversy over the Second Conventicle Act, the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis, the founding and settlement of Pennsylvania, and the contentious reign of James II. Through a careful examination of writings published in the midst of the religious and political conflicts of Restoration and Revolutionary England, Murphy contextualizes the development of Penn's thought in England and America, illuminating the mutual interconnections between Penn's political thought and his colonizing venture in America.
An early advocate of representative institutions and religious freedom, William Penn remains a singular figure in the history of liberty of conscience. His political theorizing provides a window into the increasingly vocal, organized, and philosophically sophisticated tolerationist movement that gained strength over the second half of the seventeenth century. Not only did Penn attempt to articulate principles of religious liberty as a Quaker in England, but he actually governed an American polity and experienced firsthand the complex relationship between political theory and political practice. Murphy's insightful analysis shows Penn's ongoing significance to the broader study of Anglo-American political theory and practice, ultimately pointing scholars toward a new way of understanding the enterprise of political theory itself.
Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration is a masterful achievement, one as remarkable for its careful treatment and painstaking analysis of early modern toleration and liberty of conscience as for its insightful reflections on political theory, practice and genre. Assessing the wide sweep of Penn's writings and actions serves as an exemplary opportunity not only to reflect on theory and its complex and at times unexpected relationship to practice but also to see more clearly the ways in which political theorizing responds to context, shapes the embodied and performative dimensions of protest and resistance, resists entrenched and coercive power, and protects religion, prudence and civil interest.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. William Penn in England and America: An Approach to Political Thought in Context
2. Emergence: 1668-1671
3. Debut: The Peoples Ancient and Just Liberties
4. Plot: Parliament, Popery, and Liberty, 1678-1681
5. Founding: Theory Meets Practice?
6. Revolution: Penn, 1685-88
7. Return: The 1690s
8. Legacy?
Bibliography
Index
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