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The reformation of rights : law, religion, and human rights in early modern Calvinism / John Witte, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: xv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521818421 (hardback)
  • 0521818427 (hardback)
  • 9780521521611 (paperback)
  • 0521521610 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.7094 22
LOC classification:
  • BX9422.3 .W58 2007
Other classification:
  • 11.55
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Moderate (religious) liberty in the theology of John Calvin : the original Genevan experiment -- The duties of conscience and the free exercise of Christian liberty : Theodore Beza and the rise of Calvinist rights and resistance theory -- Natural rights, popular sovereignty, and covenant politics : Johannes Althusius and the Dutch Revolt and republic -- Prophets, priests, and kings of liberty : John Milton and the rights and liberties of all Englishmen -- How to govern a city on a hill: covenant liberty in Puritan New England -- Concluding reflections : the biology and biography of liberty.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-368) and indexes.

Introduction -- Moderate (religious) liberty in the theology of John Calvin : the original Genevan experiment -- The duties of conscience and the free exercise of Christian liberty : Theodore Beza and the rise of Calvinist rights and resistance theory -- Natural rights, popular sovereignty, and covenant politics : Johannes Althusius and the Dutch Revolt and republic -- Prophets, priests, and kings of liberty : John Milton and the rights and liberties of all Englishmen -- How to govern a city on a hill: covenant liberty in Puritan New England -- Concluding reflections : the biology and biography of liberty.

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