ISBN:
9780521818421
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9780521521611
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 388 S.
,
Ill.
,
23cm
Edition:
reprint.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Benedict, Philip Persecution and pluralism. Calvinists and religious minorities in early modern Europe, 1550–1700. Edited by Richard Bonney and D. J. B. Trim. (Studies in the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, 2.) Pp. 326. Oxford–Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. £37.50. 3 03910 570 1; 0 8204 7597 1; 1661 1985 - The reformation of rights. Law, religion, and human rights in early modern Calvinism. By John WitteJr. Pp. xvi+388 incl. frontispece and 6 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. £45 (cloth), £15.99 (paper). 978 0 521 81842 1; 978 0 521 52161 1 2009
DDC:
261.7094
Keywords:
Calvinism
;
Calvinism History
;
Calvinists History
;
Christianity and law
;
Christianity and politics
;
Church and state History
;
Church and state History
;
Europe Politics and government
;
United States Politics and government To 1775
;
Calvinismus
;
Menschenrecht
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Moderate (religious) liberty in the theology of John Calvin : the original Genevan experiment -- The duties of conscience and the free exercise of Christian liberty : Theodore Beza and the rise of Calvinist rights and resistance theory -- Natural rights, popular sovereignty, and covenant politics : Johannes Althusius and the Dutch Revolt and republic -- Prophets, priests, and kings of liberty : John Milton and the rights and liberties of all Englishmen -- How to govern a city on a hill: covenant liberty in Puritan New England -- Concluding reflections : the biology and biography of liberty
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