‘Solemn Oaths of Our Allegiance’: Word and Sacrament in Hobbes’s Leviathan

• In Event: Reformation Legacies in Early Modern Political Thought

Brief Overview

This paper reconstructs Hobbes’s account of baptism and the Lord’s Supper and their parallels in Old Testament Israel. It then situates this account against the backdrop of intra-Protestant controversies over sacramentology and ecclesiology.

Author

• Mikael Good, Georgetown University