John Marshall is a British historian. He was the Chairman of the Department of History at

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, and is now Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History at the same institution.

Life

He was awarded BA (1st Class Hons.) and an MA at

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, as well as an MA and PhD from The Johns Hopkins University. He is a Fellow of the

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. Marshall has written two books on the English philosopher and political theorist

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of the

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wrote that Marshall's ''John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility'' was "the most careful and comprehensive treatment of Locke's

political theology Political theology is a term which has been used in discussion of the ways in which Theology, theological concepts or ways of thinking relate to politics. The term is often used to denote religious thought about political principled questions. Scho ...

I have read". Julian H. Franklin of

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said that "the elaborate and extended account of Locke's positions on ecclesiology and theology is essentially the first complete study of Locke's thought in that domain and is unrivaled in the literature".

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claimed that Marshall's ''John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture'' "is not only an outstanding contribution to the history of religious toleration, but also offers the most comprehensive treatment of the subject in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the early years of the

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, that now exists...a fine work of scholarship". Tim Harris wrote that the "book is surely destined to become a classic".Tim Harris, ‘Review: John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture’, ''The Catholic Historical Review'', Vol. 93, No. 3 (Jul., 2007), p. 666.

Works

*''John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility'' (Cambridge University Press, 1994). *''John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture'' (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, John Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Place of birth missing (living people) Johns Hopkins University faculty Alumni of Churchill College, Cambridge American male non-fiction writers Locke scholars