1st Edition

Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By Ian Campbell, Floris Verhaart Copyright 2022
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare. Nevertheless, it is too often assumed that Reformed political thought did not develop beyond John Calvin’s Institutes of 1559. This book remedies this problem,... Read more

Part 1 - Ian Campbell

Introduction: Calvinism, Warfare, and the Politics of Duty

Part 2 - Floris Verhaart

Editorial Note

Chapter 1: Peter Martyr Vermigli and his Commentary on Genesis

Chapter 2: Lambert Daneau on Ethics, Politics, and the Anti-Christ

Chapter 3: Bartholomäus Keckermann, Aristotelianism, and the Holy Roman Empire after the Peace of Augsburg

Chapter 4: Guillaume du Buc and the Institutiones Theologicae

Chapter 5: David Pareus and his Commentary on Romans

Chapter 6: Johann Heinrich Alsted on Interaction with non-Christians and War against Blasphemers

Chapter 7: Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf on Religious Intervention in Foreign States

Chapter 8: Venceslaus Clemens’ Gustavis and the Thirty Years’ War as a Religious Conflict

Chapter 9: Dudley Fenner, Puritanism, and Reformed Resistance Theory

Chapter 10: Gisbertus Voetius, the Dutch Revolt, and Religious Toleration in the United Provinces

Chapter 11: Johannes Hoornbeeck and the Reformed against Holy War

Index

Biography

Ian Campbell is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests include early modern British and Irish history; political thought and intellectual history; and the history of race.

Floris Verhaart is a Government of Ireland Research Fellow in the School of History at University College Cork. His research interests are the intellectual and religious history of Europe, especially the Dutch Republic, Britain, and France.

This collection will serve to clarify the nature of Reformed political thought by successfully demonstrating that, despite some differences, its approach is in line with the just war tradition. In sum, this work will be a valuable resource for the post-Reformation era historian and the student of war and its ethical implications. -- Thomas Haviland-Pabst