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Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration - The Political Thought of William Penn (Paperback)
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Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration - The Political Thought of William Penn (Paperback)
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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 and practice,
ultimately pointing scholars toward a new way of understanding the
enterprise of political theory itself.
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