ABSTRACT
Although Hobbes’s political philosophy remains the most important aspect of his thought for scholars today, his views about religion have been studied intensively for more than a decade in part because of the recognition that they were important to his general philosophy and because his analyses of basic concepts of religion are philosophically interesting. 1 It is fascinating to consider such questions as whether faith in something is compatible with rationality, whether miracles are compatible with a deterministic universe, and whether revelation could occur. If nothing else, these concepts test the boundaries of our conceptions of rationality, determinism, and knowledge.
