Preface.- List of Abbreviations.- Chronology.- PART 1: HOBBES AND HIS CONTEXT.- Introductory.- 1588-1640.- 1640-51.- 1651-79.- PART 2: THE LAW OF NATURE AND THE NATURAL CONDITION OF MANKIND.- Self-preservation.- The State and Right of Nature.- The Laws of Nature and Justice
Covenants.- PART 3: THE ORIGINS OF GOVERNMENT AND THE NATURE OF POLITICAL OBLIGATION.- The Institution of a Commonwealth.- Conquest.- The Family and the State
Political Obligation.- PART 4: HOBBES ON SOVEREIGNTY AND LAW.- Sovereignty.- The Liberty and Property of the Subject.- Law and the Sovereign.- The Duties of the Sovereign.- PART 5: HOBBES ON CHURCH AND STATE.- What is Scripture?.- Ecclesiastical Power: the Case Against Bellarmine.- Ecclesiastical Power: De Cive, Leviathan and Anglican Thinking.- Excommunication and Erastianism.- PART 6: GOD, RELIGION AND TOLERATION.- God.- Faith, Salvation, Revelation, Prophecy and Miracles.- Toleration and Conscience.- Church History and Reformation.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.