Title: The struggle for a Christian politics : an essay in grounding the Calvinistic worldview in its law-idea /
Authors: Dooyeweerd, H. 1894-1977.; Strauss, D. F. M.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Calvinism History.; Christianity and law.; Christianity and politics.
Contents: The age-old problem of Christian politics -- The idea of the corpus Christianum -- Weaknesses in the medieval worldview -- Dissolution of the unified ecclesiastical structure -- Humanism and the Renaissance : severing the bond between nature and grace -- The development of the modern conception of science -- The new conception of matter -- Toleration : the modern approach to religion -- The humanist law-idea and the formation of the naturalistic worldview -- The rise of the modern theory of natural law -- The mathematical mode; applied to natural law -- Galileo and Hobbes -- The self-destruction of humanist natural law.