Author: Théodore de BèzePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Concerning the Rights of Rulers Over Their Subjects and the Duty of Subjects Towards Their Rulers
Author: Théodore de BèzePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Concerning the Rights of Rulers Over Their Subjects and the Duty of Subjects Towards Their Rulers
Author: Theodore de BèzeThe Genevan Reformation and the American Founding
Author: David W. HallPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739111062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that the American founders were more greatly influenced by Calvinism than contemporary scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have understood. Calvinism's insistence on human rulers' tendency to err played a significant role in the founders' prescription of limited government and fed the distinctly American philosophy in which political freedom for citizens is held as the highest value. Hall's timely work countervails many scholars' doubt in the intellectual efficacy of religion by showing that religious teachings have led to such progressive ideals as American democracy and freedom.
From Personal Duties Towards Personal Rights
Author: Arthur P. MonahanPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773510173
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Focusing on the concepts of popular consent, representation, limit, and resistance to tyranny as essential features of modern theories of parliamentary democracy, Monahan shows a continuity in use of these concepts across the alleged divide between the Mi
The Blessings of Liberty
Author: John Witte, Jr.Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108429203
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
A robust defense of the essential interdependence of human rights and religious freedom from antiquity to the present.
The Reformation of Rights
Author: John WittePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521818427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Calvin's teachings spread rapidly throughout Western Europe shaping the law of early modern Protestant lands.
Research Handbook on Natural Law Theory
Author: Jonathan CrowePublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788110048
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
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Liberty in the Things of God
Author: Robert Louis WilkenPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300226632
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external force, laying a foundation on which later generations would build. Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin. They took form before the Enlightenment through the labors of men and women of faith who believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. This provocative book, drawing on writings from the early Church as well as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reminds us of how "the meditations of the past were fitted to affairs of a later day."
Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms
Author: David VanDrunenPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802864430
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Conventional scholarship holds that the theology and social ethics of the Reformed tradition stand at odds with concepts of natural law and the two kingdoms. But David VanDrunen here challenges that status quo through his careful, thoroughgoing exploration of the development of Reformed social thought from the Reformation to the present. - from publisher description.
Reproducing the State
Author: Jacqueline StevensPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691222444
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
People are said to acquire their affiliations of ethnicity, race, and sex at birth. Hence, these affiliations have long been understood to be natural, independent of the ability of political societies to define who we are. Reproducing the State vigorously challenges the conventional view, as well as post-structuralist scholarship that minimizes state power. Jacqueline Stevens examines birth-based theories of membership and group affiliations in political societies ranging from the Athenian polis, to tribes of Australia, to the French republic, to the contemporary United States. The book details how political societies determine the kinship rules that are used to reproduce political societies. Stevens analyzes the ways that ancestral and territorial birth rules for membership in political societies pattern other intergenerational affiliations. She shows how the notion of ethnicity depends on the implicit or explicit invocation of a past, present, or future political society. She also shows how geography is used to represent political regions, including continents, as the seemingly natural underpinning for racial taxonomies perpetuated through miscegenation laws and birth certificates. And Stevens argues that sex differences are also constituted through membership practices of political societies. In its chronological and disciplinary range, Reproducing the State will reward the interest of scholars in many fields, including anthropology, history, political science, sociology, women's studies, race studies, and ethnic studies.