Description: Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration : The Political Thought of William Penn, Paperback by Murphy, Andrew R., ISBN 0190935898, ISBN-13 9780190935894, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 Penns 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 Penns thought in England and America, illuminating the mutual interconnections
between Penns 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. Murphys insightful analysis shows Penns ongoing significance to the broader study of Anglo-American political and practice, ultimately pointing scholars toward a new way of understanding the enterprise of political theory itself.
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Book Title: Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration : The Political Thought of Wi
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration : the Political Thought of William Penn
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: History & Theory, Social History, General, Political, Modern / General, Historical, Political Freedom
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Author: Andrew R. Murphy
Subject Area: Religion, Political Science, Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
