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TitleThe Reformation of rights : Law, religion and human rights in early modern Calvinism
AuthorWitte, John.
Call No261.7094 WIT
CollectionNon Fiction
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International Standard Book Number 9780521521611
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 261.7094 WIT
Personal Name Witte, John.
Title Statement The Reformation of rights : Law, religion and human rights in early modern Calvinism
Imprint Cambridge, Massachusetts : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Physical Description 388p.
General Note Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
Formatted Contents Note 1. Moderate (religious) liberty in the theology of John Calvin: The original Genevan experiment 2. The duties of conscience and the free exercise of Christian liberty: Theodore Beza and the rise of Calvinist rights and resistance theory 3. Natural rights, popular sovereignty, and covenant politics: Johannes Althusius and the Dutch Revolt and Republic 4. Prophets, priests, and kings of liberty: John Milton and the rights and liberties of Englishmen 5. How to govern a city on a hill: Covenant liberty in Puritan New England 6. Concluding reflections: The biography and biology of liberty in early modern Calvinism.
Summary, Etc. "John Calvin developed arresting new teachings on rights and liberties, church and state, and religion and politics that shaped the law of Protestant lands. Calvin's original teachings, which spread rapidly throughout the West, were periodically challenged by major crises - the French Wars of Religion, the Dutch Revolt, the English Civil War, American colonization, and the American Revolution. In each such crisis moment, a major Calvinist figure emerged - Theodore Beza, Johannes Althusius, John Milton, John Winthrop, John Adams, and others - who modernized Calvin's teachings and translated them into dramatic new legal and political reforms. This rendered early modern Calvinism one of the driving engines of Western constitutionalism. A number of basic Western legal ideas of religious and political rights, social and confessional pluralism, federalism and social contract, and more owe a great deal to this religious movement."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term CALVINISM.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term CHRISTIANITY AND LAW.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term CHURCH AND STATE - EUROPE - HISTORY.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term CHURCH AND STATE - UNITED STATES - HISTORY.