The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Reformation of Rights Calvin's teachings spread rapidly throughout Western Europe shaping the law of early modern Protestant lands.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 01 February 2008
- Format: Paperback 404 pages
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- Categories: Political Science & Theory | Law & Society | European History | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Christianity | Christian Theology | Theology
- ISBN 13: 9780521521611 ISBN 10: 0521521610
- Sales rank: 313,518
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Full description for The Reformation of Rights
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.
