Politics reformed : the Anglo-American legacy of covenant theology /
"This remarkable overview overview of history and opinion regarding the political theory of the covenant will undoubtedly become a standard resource on the history of this topic."--Thomas Kidd, author of American Christians and Islam.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©2010.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780826272232 0826272231 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : returning to political theology
- Defending political theology
- The biblical background to covenanting
- Founding covenant theologies : Bullinger and Calvin
- Regime, discipline, and resistance : the covenant and the civil magistrate
- The legacies of Geneva and Zurich in England and Scotland
- Covenant, revolution, war, and eschatology
- Reaching limits : the covenant in America
- Natural law and natural right in reformed political theology
- The reformation in retrospect
- Contemporary perspectives on covenanting
- Lessons for religion and politics today.