| The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism Contributor(s): Witte Jr, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511819374 ISBN-13: 9780511819377 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $191.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - General - Religion | Theology |
| Dewey: 261.7 |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: 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 were periodically challenged by major crises - the French Wars of Religion, Dutch Revolt, the English Civil War, American colonization, and 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 laws on religious and political rights, social and confessional pluralism, federalism and constitutionalism, and more owe a great deal to this religious movement. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of history, law, religion, politics, ethics, human rights, and the Protestant Reformation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Witte Jr, John: - John Witte, Jr is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. His many publications include Law and Protestantism (2002). |