Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Thomas Hobbes and the Uses of Christianity
2: Hobbes, the Long Parliament, and the Church of England
3: Rise of the Independents
4: Leviathan and the Cromwellian Revolution
5: Hobbes among the Cromwellians
6: The Independents and the 'Religion of Thomas Hobbes'
7: Response of the Exiled Church
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Jeffrey R. Collins is an Assistant Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1999 and served, for three years, as a Harper Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. He has published articles in Historical Journal, History, and Church History.

Reviews

Hobbes studies have rarely been stronger. Dr Collins is properly respectful of the contribution made in recent years by three scholars of distinction, Qhentin Skinner, Noel Malcolm and Richard Tick. But Collins is his own man and has made, in his first book, a contribution to rival theirs.