Abstract
There was once, under Moses and his successors, a kingdom of God and there will be another after the second coming of Christ. But no such kingdom can exist in the present, and therefore rebellion against the sovereign, here and now, cannot be justified in its name. Going beyond this generally well-understood purpose of Hobbes's theology, Professor Schwartz argues here that the distinction between the Jewish and Christian Kingdoms of God, as Hobbes presents it, informs his discussion of a well-ordered commonwealth in Leviathan. This commonwealth avoids the defects of the Jewish kingdom-instability and confusion resulting from incorrect notions of sovereignty, liberty, and human nature-and its subjects, like those of the future Christian kingdom, are obedient to sovereign authority.
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