The Political Ideas of Pierre Viret
Author: Robert Dean Linder
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Dean Linder
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David W. Hall
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780739111062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Scott Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2020-11
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ISBN-13: 9781624180637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vincent Robert-Nicoud
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-09-11
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9004381821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The World Upside Down Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an account of the topos of the world upside-down in sixteenth-century French literature and visual culture with reference to the social, political, and religious turmoil of the period.
Author: Robert Eccleshall
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780719035692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a guide to the vast amount of literature on the history of political thought which has appeared in English since 1945. The editors provide an annotation of the content of many entries and, where appropriate, indicate their significance, controversial nature and readability.
Author: Jon Balserak
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-02-01
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9004404392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A description of the course of the Protestant Reformation in the city of Geneva from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
Author: James Henderson Burns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 818
ISBN-13: 9780521477727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, first published in 1992, presents a comprehensive scholarly account of the development of European political thinking through the Renaissance and the reformation to the 'scientific revolution' and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. It is written by a highly distinguished team of contributors.
Author: Pierre Viret
Publisher:
Published: 2017-06-22
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ISBN-13: 9781938822612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."Whether committed by words, actions, or thoughts, the act of bearing false witness is a dangerous plague infecting churches, families, and nations.What is truth? How is it defended or violated? Is lying ever lawful, and can the truth be withheld from tyrants and wicked men? Can judges be guilty of bearing false witness? What do the Scriptures mean when they demand an eye for an eye?To answer these and many more questions, Defend the Truth brings together the writings of Swiss Reformer Pierre Viret and his contemporary John Calvin as they discuss the meaning and applicability of the ninth commandment. With penetrating insight and refreshing Biblical application, these two Reformers discuss the wide scope of this commandment of the Law, covering topics including truth, falsehood, deception, slander, perjury, true justice, and more.
Author: Carlos M. N. Eire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-01-27
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521379847
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as 'idolatry', or false religion. Wherever these ideas became accepted, churches were sacked, images smashed and burned, relics destroyed, and the Catholic Mass abolished. This study calls attention to the centrality of the idolatry issue for the Reformation. It traces the development of Protestant iconoclastic theology and practice, provides a survey and synthesis of its unfolding from Erasmus through Calvin, and lays a foundation for understanding the Reformed ideology that stood in conflict with Catholicism and Lutheranism. Professor Eire's main thesis is that the argument against 'idolatry' was central to Reformed Protestantism, both in its theological aspect and in its political ramifications, and that it reached its fullest and most enduring expression in Calvinism.
Author: Gianmarco Braghi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-07-19
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 900446199X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Emergence of Pastoral Authority in the French Reformed Church, c.1555-c.1572 offers an account of the issues and ambiguities connected to the implementation of the authority of the first generation of Geneva-trained French Reformed pastors.