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'Hobbes's Political Philosophy' clarifies Hobbes's positions by examining what Hobbes considered a science of politics, a set of timeless truths grounded in definitions. A.P. Martinich explains this science of politics, examining Hobbes's views on the laws of nature, authorization and representation, sovereignty by acquisition, and others. He argues that in addition to the timeless science, Hobbes had two timebound projects. The first was to eliminate the apparent conflict between the new science of Copernicus and Galileo and the second was to show that Christianity is not politically destabilizing.

The Presbyterians, according to Thomas Hobbes in Behemoth, were one of the principal corrupters of the people; and the corruption of the people was a cause of the English Civil War. In fact, it was not the Presbyterians who were a cause of the Civil War, but certain puritan ministers, notably some closely connected with members of Parliament. The puritan ministers opposed the Laudian church and the concept of jure divino episcopacy but many would have accepted a form of episcopacy. Sermons by puritan ministers, often coordinated with MPs, contributed to the political instability of 1640 and after. The religious Presbyterians, who had been puritans, did emerged after fighting had broken out between royalist and parliamentary forces and after the opening of the Westminster Assembly of Divines in 1643. ; Hobbes je v Behemothu prezbiterijance postavil na sam vrh med tistimi, ki so skvarili ljudstvo, v čemer je videl enega od vzrokov angleške državljanske vojne. Dejansko eni od povzročiteljev državljanske vojne niso bili prezbiterijanci, temveč določeni puri-tanski duhovniki, zlasti nekateri, ki so bili tesno povezani s člani parlamenta. Puri-tanski duhovniki so nasprotovali laudovski cerkvi in škofovstvu jure divino, a mnogi med njimi so bili pripravljeni sprejeti kakšno drugo obliko episkopata. Puritanske pridige, pogosto koordinirane s člani parlamenta, so prispevale k politični nestabilnosti leta 1640 in pozneje. Verski prezbiterijanci, ki so pred tem bili puritanci, so se pojavili, ko je izbruhnil spopad med kraljevimi in parlamentarnimi silami in ko je 1643 začela z delom westminstrska sinoda.

The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Best known today for his important influence on political philosophy, Hobbes was in fact a wide and deep thinker on a diverse range of issues. The chapters included in this Oxford Handbook cover the full range of Hobbes's thought--his philosophy of logic and language; his view of physics and scientific method; his ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law; and his views of religion, history, and literature. Several of the chapters overlap in fruitful ways, so that the reader can see the richness and depth of Hobbes's thought from a variety of perspectives. The contributors are experts on Hobbes from many countries, whose home disciplines include philosophy, political science, history, and literature. A substantial introduction places Hobbes's work, and contemporary scholarship on Hobbes, in a broad context.