A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought, Volume I

1517-1660
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-16209-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 750 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1280 g

This first volume of A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought provides a window into the early Protestant world, and the ways in which Protestants wrestled with politics and religion in the wake of the Reformation.

This period saw political authorities and church hierarchies challenged and defended by scholars, clerics, and laypeople alike. The volume engages the full spectrum of Protestants, with reference to theology, geography, ethnicity, historical importance, socio-economic background, and gender. This diversity highlights how Protestants felt pulled towards differing political positions and used several maps to chart their course – conscience, custom, history, ecclesiastical tradition, and the laws of God, nature, nation, or community. On most important issues, Protestants lined up on opposing sides. Additionally, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox political thought, as well as interactions with Jewish and Muslim texts and thinkers, profoundly influenced different directions taken in the history of Protestant political thought. Even as our own time is fraught with deep disagreement and political polarisation, so too was early modern Europe, and we might read it in the anxieties, uncertainties, hopes, and expectations that the sources vividly express.

This sourcebook will enrich both research and classroom teaching in politics, theology, and history, whether geared towards general political or religious history, or towards more specialised courses on colonialism, warfare, gender, race or religious diversity.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rowley, Matthew

Tol, Marietta van der

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1:

 

Introduction

The Editors

 

Early Modern Biographies as a Window into Political Thought

Bruce Gordon

 

Natural law and Divine Law

Sarah Mortimer

 

Resistance and Rebellion

Karie Schultz

 

The Use of the Sword: Violence, Empire, and Slavery

Matthew Rowley

 

Toleration

Marietta van der Tol

 

The Hebrew Bible and Politics

John Coffey

 

Islam and Protestantism

Mehmet Karabela

 

Part 2: Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Rowley, FRHistS, is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Fairfield University. His publications include Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again (Routledge, 2020), God, Religious Extremism and Violence (2024), and Godly Violence in the Puritan Atlantic World (2024).

Marietta van der Tol is College Lecturer in Politics at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She is Principal Investigator of the Protestant Political Thought project and is author of the book Constitutional Intolerance: The Fashioning of the Other in Europe’s Constitutional Repertoires (2024).