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Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority
Author | : Harro Höpfl |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1991-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521342082 |
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Martin Luther and John Calvin were the principal 'magistral' Reformers of the sixteenth-century: they sought to enlist the cooperation of rulers in the work of reforming the Church. However, neither regarded the relationship between Reformed Christians and the secular authorities as comfortable or unproblematic. The two pieces translated here, Luther's On Secular Authority and Calvin's On Civil Government, constitute their most sustained attempts to find the proper balance between these two commitments. Despite their mutual respect, there were wide divergences between them. Luther's On Secular Authority would later be cited en bloc in favour of religious toleration, whereas Calvin envisaged secular authority as an agency for the compulsory establishment of the external conditions of Christian virtue and the suppression of dissent. The introduction, glossary, chronology and bibliography contained in this volume locate the texts in the broader context of the theology and political thinking of their authors.
Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority
Author | : John Calvin,Martin Luther |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1991-09-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781107393035 |
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Martin Luther and John Calvin were the principal 'magistral' Reformers of the sixteenth-century: they sought to enlist the cooperation of rulers in the work of reforming the Church. However, neither regarded the relationship between Reformed Christians and the secular authorities as comfortable or unproblematic. The two pieces translated here, Luther's On Secular Authority and Calvin's On Civil Government, constitute their most sustained attempts to find the proper balance between these two commitments. Despite their mutual respect, there were wide divergences between them. Luther's On Secular Authority would later be cited en bloc in favour of religious toleration, whereas Calvin envisaged secular authority as an agency for the compulsory establishment of the external conditions of Christian virtue and the suppression of dissent. The introduction, glossary, chronology and bibliography contained in this volume locate the texts in the broader context of the theology and political thinking of their authors.
The Problem of Authority in the Continental Reformers
Author | : Rupert E. Davies |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2009-05-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781606087282 |
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The problem of authority in religion is one of the perennial problems of human thought and experience. This book is an attempt to show how it presented itself to Christians in a particular historical setting, and to discuss the value of the solutions which some of them accepted. -- From the Preface
Church and State in Luther and Calvin
Author | : William A. Mueller |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : UOM:39015003504332 |
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The Christian Polity of John Calvin
Author | : Harro Höpfl |
Publsiher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1985-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521316383 |
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This book explores the relationship between Calvin's thought about civil and ecclesiastical order and his own circumstances and activities. The early chapters argue that in his pre-Genevan writings, including the first edition of the Institution, Calvin's political thinking was entirely conventional; his subsequent thought and conduct were not an implementation of previously formulated ideas. Later chapters examine whether and to what extent Calvin developed a distinctive vision of the Christian polity as part of an overall conception of the Christian life.
The Individual in Political Theory and Practice
Author | : Janet Coleman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019820549X |
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One of the main achievements of the research programme has been to overcome the long-established historiographical tendency to regard states mainly from the viewpoint of their twentieth-century borders.
Luther and Calvin
Author | : Charlotte Methuen |
Publsiher | : Lion Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780745953403 |
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Martin Luther and John Calvin have both left dramatic and lasting influences on Christianity and on European society. Their calls for reform led to the church breaking off in different directions, and people and nations believed so passionately for or against their causes that wars ravaged Europe for decades. But what exactly did they teach? This book presents Luther and Calvin in context, looking at the work and ideas of each in turn and then at the making of Lutheranism and the Reformed tradition, showing how the sixteenth-century Reformation began a process of political and intellectual change that went beyond Europe to the 'New World'. The result is that today its influence is tangible all over the Western world. Perfect for those who want to understand and engage with what Luther and Calvin thought, and with the debates surrounding interpretation, this book is an excellent introduction to two of Christianity's most famous thinkers. Charlotte Methuen teaches Church history at the University of Glasgow, and has also worked a the Universities of Hamburg, Bochum, Oxford and Mainz. She specializes in the Reformation period and is the author of numerous books and articles.
Protestantism Revolution and Scottish Political Thought
Author | : Karie Schultz |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2024-05-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781474493147 |
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During the Scottish Revolution (1637-1651), royalists and Covenanters appealed to Scottish law, custom and traditional views on kingship to debate the limits of King Charles I's authority. But they also engaged with the political ideas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant and Catholic intellectuals beyond the British Isles. This book explores the under-examined European context for Scottish political thought by analysing how royalists and Covenanters adapted Lutheran, Calvinist, and Catholic political ideas to their own debates about church and state. In doing so, it argues that Scots advanced languages of political legitimacy to help solve a crisis about the doctrines, ceremonies and polity of their national church. It therefore reinserts the importance of ecclesiology to the development of early modern political theory.