Martin Luther and John Calvin were the principal 'magistral'
Reformers of the sixteenth-century: they sought to enlist the
cooperation of rulers in the work of reforming the Church. However,
neither regarded the relationship between Reformed Christians and
the secular authorities as comfortable or unproblematic. The two
pieces translated here, Luther's On Secular Authority and Calvin's
On Civil Government, constitute their most sustained attempts to
find the proper balance between these two commitments. Despite
their mutual respect, there were wide divergences between them.
Luther's On Secular Authority would later be cited en bloc in
favour of religious toleration, whereas Calvin envisaged secular
authority as an agency for the compulsory establishment of the
external conditions of Christian virtue and the suppression of
dissent. The introduction, glossary, chronology and bibliography
contained in this volume locate the texts in the broader context of
the theology and political thinking of their authors.
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