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The peril and promise of Christian liberty : Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant political theology / W. Bradford Littlejohn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Littlejohn, W. Bradford, author.
- Series:
- Emory University studies in law and religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 1554-1600.
- Hooker, Richard.
- Liberty--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
- Liberty.
- Christianity and politics.
- Protestant churches--Doctrines.
- Protestant churches.
- Liberty--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 298 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids : Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2017.
- Summary:
- How do Christians determine when to obey God even if that means disobeying other people? In this book W. Bradford Littlejohn addresses that question as he unpacks the magisterial political-theological work of Richard Hooker, a leading figure in the sixteenth-century English Reformation. Littlejohn shows how Martin Luther and other Reformers considered Christian liberty to be compatible with considerable civil authority over the church, but he also analyses the ambiguities and tensions of that relationship and how it helped provoke the Puritan movement. The heart of the book examines how, according to Richard Hooker, certain forms of Puritan legalism posed a much greater threat to Christian liberty than did meddling monarchs. In expounding Hooker's remarkable attempt to offer a balanced synthesis of liberty and authority in church, state, and conscience, Littlejohn draws out pertinent implications for Christian liberty and politics today.
- Contents:
- 1 "Different Kings and Different Laws" 1
- Christian Liberty and the Conflict of Loyalties since the Reformation
- 2 Freedom for the Neighbor 51
- Christian Liberty and the Demand for Edification
- 3 "Exact Precise Severity" 87
- The Puritan Challenge to Prince and Conscience
- 4 Richard Hooker and the Freedom of a "Politic Society" 125
- Between Legalism and Libertinism
- 5 Harmonized Loyalties 153
- Conscience, Reason, and Corporate Moral Agency
- 6 The Soul of a Christian Commonwealth 191
- Politics in Submission to the Word
- 7 "The Truth Will Set You Free" 238
- The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802872562
- 0802872565
- OCLC:
- 961009516
- Publisher Number:
- 99972303439
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