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The Reformation of Rights - Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Paperback, New)
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The Reformation of Rights - Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Paperback, New)
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John Calvin developed arresting new teachings on rights and
liberties, church and state, and religion and politics that shaped
the law of Protestant lands. Calvin's original teachings were
periodically challenged by major crises - the French Wars of
Religion, Dutch Revolt, the English Civil War, American
colonization, and American Revolution. In each such crisis moment,
a major Calvinist figure emerged - Theodore Beza, Johannes
Althusius, John Milton, John Winthrop, John Adams, and others - who
modernized Calvin's teachings and translated them into dramatic new
legal and political reforms. This rendered early modern Calvinism
one of the driving engines of Western constitutionalism. A number
of basic Western laws on religious and political rights, social and
confessional pluralism, federalism and constitutionalism, and more
owe a great deal to this religious movement. This book is essential
reading for scholars and students of history, law, religion,
politics, ethics, human rights, and the Protestant Reformation.
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