The reformation of rights
Subtitle: law, religion, and human rights in early modern Calvinism
By: John Witte, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780521818421; 9780521521611
Subjects: Calvinism.; Calvinism -- History.; Calvinists -- History.; Christianity and law.; Christianity and politics.; Church and state -- Europe -- History.; Church and state -- United States -- History.; Europe -- Politics and government.; United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-368) and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Moderate (religious) liberty in the theology of John Calvin : the original Genevan experiment; value: The duties of conscience and the free exercise of Christian liberty : Theodore Beza and the rise of Calvinist rights and resistance theory; value: Natural rights, popular sovereignty, and covenant politics : Johannes Althusius and the Dutch Revolt and republic; value: Prophets, priests, and kings of liberty : John Milton and the rights and liberties of all Englishmen; value: How to govern a city on a hill: covenant liberty in Puritan New England; value: Concluding reflections : the biology and biography of liberty.