Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Preface
- Introduction: the historiographical problem
- 1 Hobbesian Independent
- 2 Republican Independent
- 3 Surreptitious naturalism: the invention of a new rhetoric
- 4 ‘Mahometan Christianity’: Stubbe's secular historicism
- 5 Aristotle on the ale-benches
- 6 Court pen: ‘ancient prudence’ and royal policy
- 7 Court to country
- 8 Civil religion and radical politics: Stubbe to Toland
- Epilogue: the paganizing thread
- Notes
- Bibliographical Note
- Index
4 - ‘Mahometan Christianity’: Stubbe's secular historicism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Preface
- Introduction: the historiographical problem
- 1 Hobbesian Independent
- 2 Republican Independent
- 3 Surreptitious naturalism: the invention of a new rhetoric
- 4 ‘Mahometan Christianity’: Stubbe's secular historicism
- 5 Aristotle on the ale-benches
- 6 Court pen: ‘ancient prudence’ and royal policy
- 7 Court to country
- 8 Civil religion and radical politics: Stubbe to Toland
- Epilogue: the paganizing thread
- Notes
- Bibliographical Note
- Index
Summary
…so that there is no hopes that popery can be kept out, but by a company of poor people called fanatics, who are driven into corners as the first Christians were; and who only in truth conserve the purity of Christian religion, as it was planted by Christ and his Apostles and is contained in Scripture.
Henry Neville, Plato RedivivusUp to this point I have analyzed the development of Stubbe's ideas chronologically and according as they appear in print. But I must now deviate from that rigid chronological treatment in an effort to throw some light upon Stubbe's fundamental political and religious ideas as they developed during the Restoration, which in turn will illuminate major issues dealt with in both the last chapter and the next. To do this I must examine a document out of strict chronological sequence, Stubbe's An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism. It was not written before 1671, when Stubbe mentioned his intention to set down his thoughts on the subject. So he had entertained the ideas that it contains before he wrote them out, and indeed they chime with views he held before and after the Restoration which we have already met with.
Stubbe's Account existed only in manuscript copies for two centuries before it was published for the first time in 1911.
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