The Religious Project of James Harrington

Abstract

This paper intends to show, initially, that God as the Creator has significant functions in Harrington's preoccupations, altnough articulated differently from the religious enthusiasts amongst his contemporaries, and, then, that His relation with human beings influences to the constitutional arrangements of Harrington: the Bicameral System composed of the Senate Proposing and the Congregation Resolving. Through them, it demonstrated the positive aspects of his religious Component to be defined as a secularly articulated religiosity, and concluded that the understanding of Harrington's religious assumptions pursuing Freedom to Authority was indispensable in order to evaluate comprehensively his thought as a whole.