Protestant politics beyond Calvin : reformed theologians on war in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Ian Campbell and Floris Verhaart.
By: Campbell, Ian (Senior lecturer) [author.].
Contributor(s): Verhaart, Floris [author.].
Material type: Text Language of document:EnglishSeries: Routledge studies in Renaissance and early modern worlds of knowledge ; 23: Publisher: 2022Description: viii, 308 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780367525088; 9780367525118.Subject(s): Christianity and politics -- Protestant churches -- History -- 16th century | Christianity and politics -- Protestant churches -- History -- 17th century | War -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches -- History -- 16th century | War -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches -- History -- 16th century | CalvinismDDC classification: 261.70882842 Summary: "The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare. Nevertheless, it is too often assumed that Reformed political thought did not develop beyond John Calvin's Institutes of 1559. This book remedies this problem, presenting extracts from major Reformed theologians and intellectuals (including Peter Martyr Vermigli, Guillaume de Buc, David Pareus, Lambert Daneau, and Bartholom�aus Keckermann) which demonstrate both continuity and change in Reformed political argument. These men taught in France, the Holy Roman Empire, the Low Countries, and England, between the 1540s and 1660s, but they were read in universities throughout the North Atlantic world into the eighteenth century. Should all political action be subject to God's direct command? Were humans capable of using their own God-given reason to tell right from wrong? Was it ever just to resist tyrants? Was religious difference enough by itself to justify war? Their political doctrines often aroused the greatest controversy in their own time; this is generally the first time that these extracts from their works have been translated into English. These texts and translations are accompanied by an introduction placing these authors in the context of the great European religious wars, advice on further reading, and a full bibliography"-- Provided by publisher.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare. Nevertheless, it is too often assumed that Reformed political thought did not develop beyond John Calvin's Institutes of 1559. This book remedies this problem, presenting extracts from major Reformed theologians and intellectuals (including Peter Martyr Vermigli, Guillaume de Buc, David Pareus, Lambert Daneau, and Bartholom�aus Keckermann) which demonstrate both continuity and change in Reformed political argument. These men taught in France, the Holy Roman Empire, the Low Countries, and England, between the 1540s and 1660s, but they were read in universities throughout the North Atlantic world into the eighteenth century. Should all political action be subject to God's direct command? Were humans capable of using their own God-given reason to tell right from wrong? Was it ever just to resist tyrants? Was religious difference enough by itself to justify war? Their political doctrines often aroused the greatest controversy in their own time; this is generally the first time that these extracts from their works have been translated into English. These texts and translations are accompanied by an introduction placing these authors in the context of the great European religious wars, advice on further reading, and a full bibliography"-- Provided by publisher.
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