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Politics Reformed : The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology /

Politics Reformed demonstrates how the application of political theology over three centuries has important lessons for our own dilemmas about church and state. It makes a provocative contribution to understanding foundational questions in an era of rising fundamentalism and emboldened secularism, i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Moots, Glenn A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.