THE WHIGGISM SURROUNDING LOCKE UNRAVELED

Whether one thinks Locke was a Deist, a Socinian, or an Arian, doesn't so much matter, big picture.

What matters is that his significance for the 18th Century, and for the American Rebellion, was not chiefly in introducing contractarianism into political theory, but rather in introducing, or at least encouraging, radical heterodox theology in religious speculation.