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Book SynopsisThe 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 and intellectuals (including Peter Martyr Vermigli, Guillaume de Buc, David Pareus, Lambert Daneau, and Bartholomäus Keckermann) which demonstrate both continuity and change in Reformed political argument. These men taught in France, the Holy Roman Empire, the Low Countries, and England, between the 1540s and 1660s, but they were read in universities throughout the North Atlantic world into the eighteenth century. Should all political action be subject to God's direct command? Were humans capable of using their own God-given reason
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This collection will serve to clarify the nature of Reformed political thought by successfully demonstrating that, despite some differences, its approach is in line with the just war tradition. In sum, this work will be a valuable resource for the post-Reformation era historian and the student of war and its ethical implications. -- Thomas Haviland-Pabst
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Peter Martyr Vermigli and his Commentary on Genesis / Chapter 2: Lambert Daneau on Ethics, Politics, and the Anti-Christ / Chapter 3: Bartholomäus Keckermann, Aristotelianism, and the Holy Roman Empire after the Peace of Augsburg / Chapter 4: Guillaume du Buc and the Institutiones Theologicae / Chapter 5: David Pareus and his Commentary on Romans / Chapter 6: Johann Heinrich Alsted on Interaction with non-Christians and War against Blasphemers / Chapter 7: Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf on Religious Intervention in Foreign States / Chapter 8: Venceslaus Clemens’ Gustavis and the Thirty Years’ War as a Religious Conflict / Chapter 9: Dudley Fenner, Puritanism, and Reformed Resistance Theory / Chapter 10: Gisbertus Voetius, the Dutch Revolt, and Religious Toleration in the United Provinces / Chapter 11: Johannes Hoornbeeck and the Reformed against Holy War
