Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Why John Locke Likely was a Unitarian

Professor John Marshall of Johns Hopkins University explains why John Locke likely was a unitarian. As an authoritative expert on the matter, Marshall is about as top notch as it gets.

2 comments:

Tom Van Dyke said...

Yes, I always took Locke's evasions as a disbelief in Jesus as God. They line up too perfectly. But nothing that made me think that he disbelieved Jesus was the Messiah, on a divine mission, and that the scriptures were divine revelation.

King of Ireland said...

"But nothing that made me think that he disbelieved Jesus was the Messiah, on a divine mission, and that the scriptures were divine revelation."

He certainly did not believe salvation was by works from some of what I read. This would probably make him ok with most Protestants though the Jesus is not God would thing would raise some eyebrows as the whole atonement thing goes.