John Coffey

Gebundenes Buch

Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions

The Mind of Samuel Rutherford

Beschreibung

This is the first modern intellectual biography of the Scottish Covenanters' great theorist Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600-61). The central focus is on Rutherford's political thought and his major treatise, Lex, Rex, written in 1644 as a justification of the Covenanters' resistance to King Charles I. The book demonstrates that while Lex, Rex provided a careful synthesis of natural-law theory and biblical politics, Rutherford's Old Testament vision of a purged and covenanted nation ultimately subverted his commitment to the politics of natural reason. The book also discusses a wide range of other topics, including scholasticism and humanism, Calvinist theology, Presbyterian ecclesiology, Rutherford's close relationships with women and his fervent spirituality. It will therefore be of considerable interest to a range of scholars and students working on Scottish and English history, Calvinism and Puritanism, and early modern political thought.

Autor

John Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. He has a particular interest in the rich and complex history of Protestantism in Britain and America and his most recent edited volume is The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559- 1689 (2020). He was part of a team which published a five-volume critical edition of a major seventeenth-century memoir, Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780521581721
• ISBN-10: 0521581729
• Artikelnr.: 26730545