His [Hobbes’] dark view of the world is the result of his acceptance of the basic tenets of nominalism, especially as it is received and transmuted by the Reformation”; again, “Hobbes like the nominalists and their followers in the Reformation denied that there is a natural or rational theology.
Michael Allen Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 209, 248 via The Myth of Protestant Nominalism, Pt. 1: Flawed Genealogies of Modernity


















