Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin: Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

by Ian Campbell and Floris Verhaart

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367525119
• ISBN13: 9780367525118
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"