A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought, Volume I : 1517-1660.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowley, Matthew.

Contributor:

van der Tol, Marietta.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (751 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

This first volume of the Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought provides a window into the early Protestant world, and the ways in which Protestants wrestled with politics and religion in the wake of the Reformation.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Author Biographies

Preface

Part I: Introductions

1 Introduction

2 Early Modern Biographies as a Window into Political Thought

3 Natural Law and Divine Law

4 Resistance and Rebellion

5 The Use of the Sword: Violence, Empire, and Slavery

6 Toleration, Coexistence, and the Place of 'The Other'

7 The Hebrew Bible and Politics

8 Islam and Protestantism

Part II: Sources

Note on Symbols in Titles

1 Martin Luther, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)

2 Philip Melanchthon, Natural, Divine and Human Laws (1521)

3 Reports Concerning the Zwickau Prophets (1521)

4 Social Welfare Legislation for the City of Wittenberg (1522)

5 Andreas Karlstadt, On the Abolition of Images and Poverty (1522)

6 Martin Luther, Temporal Authority: To What Extent it Should be Obeyed (1523)

7 Argula Von Grumbach, Against Coercion in the University (1523)

8 Huldreich Zwingli, The Sixty-Seven Articles (1523)

9 Huldreich Zwingli, Divine and Human Righteousness (1523)

10 Gustav Vasa, Test Luther with Scripture (1524)

11 Thomas Müntzer, Sermon to the Princes (1524)

12 Conrad Grebel to Thomas Müntzer on Separation and Violence (1524)

13 Peasants of Upper Swabia, Twelve Articles (1525)

14 Thomas Müntzer, Letter to the People of Allstedt (1525)

15 Christoph Schappeler, To the Assembly of the Common Peasantry (1525)

16 Urbanus Rhegius, Serfdom and the Kingdom of Christ (1525)

17 Zürich, Order to Drown Anabaptists (1526)

18 Martin Luther, Whether Soldiers, Too, Can be Saved (1526)

19 Ordinance of the Diet of Odense (1527)

20 Michael Sattler, The Schleitheim Articles (1527)

21 Hans Denck, Concerning True Love (1527)

22 King Gustav Vasa Renounces the Crown (1527).

23 Diet of Västerås Elevated the Swedish King Above the Church (1527)

24 Balthasar Hubmaier, on the Sword (1527)

25 William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528)

26 The Protestation at Speyer (1529)

27 The First Peace of Kappel (1529)

28 Johannes Bugenhagen, Whether One Can Wage War for the Sake of the Gospel (1529)

29 Johannes Brenz, The Case for State-Established Lutheranism (1529)

30 Olaus Petri, Rules for Judges (c.1520-1540)

31 Andreas Osiander, Against Incredible Antisemitic Accusations (1529)

32 Anonymous, Whether Secular Government Has the Right to Wield the Sword in Matters of Faith (1530)

33 Copenhagen Confession (1530)

34 Augsburg Confession (1530)

35 German Theologians on the Legal Grounds for Resistance (1530)

36 Founding of the Schmalkaldic League (1531)

37 Ambrosius Blaurer, Memmingen Resolution Against Persecuting Anabaptists (1531)

38 Huldreich Zwingli, A Short Exposition of the Christian Faith (1531)

39 Michael Servetus, Human Frailty and Religious Liberty (c.1531)

40 Johannes Eisermann, The Body of Christ and the Body Politic (1533)

41 Violence, Polygamy and Theocracy in the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster (1534)

42 Menno Simons, The Blasphemy of Münster's King David (1535)

43 John Calvin, Dedication to Francis I (1536)

44 Marie Dentière, Defence of Women (1539)

45 David Joris, Plea for the End of Persecution in Holland (1539)

46 Peter Riedemann, Account of our Religion, Doctrine and Faith (1541)

47 John Calvin, Ecclesiastical Ordinances for Geneva (1541)

48 Martin Luther, on the Jews and Their Lies (1543)

49 Abraomas Kulvietis, Confession Fidei (1543)

50 Aonio Paleario, Indictment Against the Roman Pontiffs (1544)

51 Anabaptist Appeal to Moravian Nobility (1545).

52 Miles Coverdale, Biblical Israel and the Righteous Use of the Sword (1547)

53 Thomas Cranmer, A Speech at the Coronation of Edward VI (1547)

54 Mikael Agricola, on the Importance of a Finnish Translation of the New Testament (1548)

55 Edward VI, Act to Take Away All Positive Laws Against the Marriage of Priests (1549)

56 Thomas Cranmer, Notes on Rebellion (1549)

57 Thomas Cranmer, What is Thy Duty towards Thy Neighbour? (1549, rev. 1662)

58 Martin Bucer, on the Reign of Christ (1550)

59 Magdeburg Pastors on Resistance to Authority (1550)

60 Katharina Von Bora, Appeal to the King of Denmark (1550)

61 Menno Simons, Magistrates, Marriage and Rebellion (c.1552)

62 Hugh Latimer, Obedience to God's Will Requires Submission (1553)

63 Sébastien Castellion, Concerning Heretics and Those who Burn Them (1554)

64 Theodore Beza, The Authority of the Magistrate in Punishing Heretics (1554)

65 Heinrich Bullinger, Obedience to Lawful Female Magistrates (1554)

66 The Peace of Augsburg (1555)

67 John Calvin, International Relations and National Boundaries (1555)

68 Philip Melanchthon to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (1556)

69 John Laski to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (1556)

70 John Ponet, on Deposing or Killing a Tyrant (1556)

71 Christopher Goodman, The People May Disobey, Resist and Dethrone Magistrates (1558)

72 John Knox, Letter to the Commonality of Scotland (1558)

73 John Knox, Outline for the Second Blast of the Trumpet (1558)

74 Elizabeth I, Proclamation Forbidding Preaching (1558)

75 John Calvin to William Cecil on Female Authority (1559)

76 Elizabeth I as Deborah (1559)

77 The French Confession of Faith (1559)

78 Geneva Bible, Dedication to Elizabeth I and Notes on Tyranny (1560)

79 The Scottish Confession of Faith (1560).

80 Erik XIV, Edict Concerning Religious Refugees (1561)

81 Casiodoro de Reina, Confessio Hispanica (1560/1561)

82 Peter Martyr Vermigli, Gideon and the Godly Commonwealth (1561)

83 John Calvin's Letters to Jeanne III (1561-1563)

84 Sébastien Castellion, Advice to a Desolate France (1562)

85 John Foxe, To the Persecutors (1563)

86 Heidelberg Catechism (1563)

87 Bernardino Ochino, on the Toleration of Heretics (1563)

88 Jacopo Aconcio, Satan's Strategy of Persecution (1565)

89 George Buchanan, Romans 13 and the Limits of Lawfull Magistracy (1567)

90 Edict of Torda (1568)

91 Iwie Synod, on Christians Holding Slaves (1568)

92 The Protestation of Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (1568)

93 Jeanne III to Catherine de Medici on Religious Toleration (1568)

94 Thomas Erastus, State Power and Excommunication (1568)

95 Niels Hemmingsen, on Obeying Idolatrous Princes (1569)

96 Protestant Peace Terms in the French Wars of Religion (1569)

97 Synod of Sandomierz, Consensus of Sandomierz (1570)

98 A Defence and True Declaration of the Things Lately Done in the Low Country (1570)

99 Zacharias Ursinus, Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism (c.1570)

100 A Homily Against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion (1570)

101 Jeanne III, The Magistrate's Duty to Further Christ's Rule (1571)

102 The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of the Church of England (1571/1801)

103 Confederation of Warsaw, Pax Dissidentium (1573)

104 François Hotman, Francogallia (1573)

105 Edmund Grindal, Preaching, Rebellion and the Limits of Royal Authority (1576)

106 Innocent Gentillet, Against Machiavelli's Amoral Politics (1576)

107 Peter Walpot, Non-Violence in the Gospels (1577)

108 Peter Beutterich, Catholicism and Tyranny Over the Conscience (1578)

109 Union of Utrecht (1579).

110 Vindiciæ Contra Tyrannos (1579)

111 Fausto Sozzini, on Pacifism and the Love of Country (1581)

112 The Declaration of the States General of the United Provinces (1581)

113 William Cecil, The Execution of Justice in England (1583)

114 Richard Hakluyt, A Discourse Concerning Western Planting (1584)

115 Elizabeth I to the King of Poland on Religious Refugees (1591)

116 Richard Hooker, of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (c.1593)

117 The Decree of Uppsala (1593)

118 Alberico Gentili, International Laws of War (1598)

119 Ministers of England, The Millenary Petition (1603)

120 Regulating the Dutch Reformed Faith in Asia (1607-1642)

121 Forming the Protestant Union (1608)

122 William Perkins, A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft (1608)

123 Edward Coke, The Abrogation of Infidel Laws (1608)

124 Hugo Grotius, on the Freedom of the Seas (1609)

125 Jacobus Arminius, on Magistracy (1603-1609)

126 James I, Speech on Divine Right Kingship (1609)

127 Lubbert Gerritsz and Hans de Ries, Mennonite Confession of Faith (c.1610)

128 Thomas Helwys, A Call for Toleration (1611-1612)

129 Virginia Colony, Laws Divine, Moral and Martial (1612)

130 John Smyth, Magistrates Should Leave Christian Religion Free (c.1612)

131 Leonard Busher, Certain Reasons Against Persecution (1614)

132 Johannes Althusius, Politics, Community and Covenant (1614)

133 The Irish Articles of Religion (1615)

134 People of Zizers, Local Religious Co-Existence (1616)

135 David Pareus, The Politics of Opposing the Antichrist (1618)

136 The Belgic Confession (1561, rev. 1619)

137 Sacred and Mundane Politics in Plymouth Colony (1620-1622)

138 Gustav II Adolf, Letters Patent to the Newly Established Swedish South Company (1622)

139 James I, Directions Concerning Preachers (1622).

140 William Ames, The Duty Towards Our Neighbour (1623).

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ISBN:

9781040031834

1040031838

OCLC:

1433109093