The Reformation of rights : Law, religion and human rights in early modern Calvinism

"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... Full description

Main Author:	Witte, John.
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Subjects:	CALVINISM. CHRISTIANITY AND LAW. CHURCH AND STATE - EUROPE - HISTORY. CHURCH AND STATE - UNITED STATES - HISTORY.
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Table of Contents:

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.

The Reformation of rights : Law, religion and human rights in early modern Calvinism

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