Daniel Elazar

Covenant and Commonwealth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

At the very beginning of the history of the covenant idea, human beings were conceived as entering into a morally grounded and informal pact with God

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781138508651
• ISBN-10: 1138508659
• Artikelnr.: 57049778

Autorenporträt

Daniel Elazar

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Covenant and the Three Separations
I: Beginnings and Separations
1: Covenant Traditions in the West
2: Medieval and Modern Separations
II: Medieval Expressions of Oath and Pact
3: Feudalism: Covenantal Fraud, Heresy, or Synthesis?
4: The Holy Roman Empire
5: Oaths and Covenants in the Mountains and Lowlands
6: Oath Societies in Greater Scandinavia
7: The British Isles: Frontier, West, and Borderlands
III: Reformation Federalism
8: Federal Theology and Politics in the Reformation
9: The Political Theology of Federalism
10: The Aborted Spread of Reformed Federalism in Germany and France
11: The Netherlands: The Covenant and the United Provinces
IV: Puritans and Covenanters
12: English Puritanism
13: The Puritans, the Civil War, and Beyond
14: The Reformation of Covenanted Scotland
15: Scotland and Covenant after Union: A Case Study
V: The Survival and Revival of Covenant
16: A Proper Covenantal Commonwealth