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Part 1 presents a political theology through a careful study of the biblical story, giving special attention to the covenants God has established with his creation and how these covenants inform a proper view of political community.
The range of topics covered is impressive. Anyone with an interest in Reformed theology should read this book. Those who are not Reformed will still find intellectual riches with which to engage.
16 contributors represent four positions on the biblical role of civil government.
General Editor Amy Black brings together five top-notch political theologians in the book, each representing one of the five key political traditions within Christianity: Anabaptist (Separationist)--Thomas Heilke Lutheran (Two Kingdom)- ...
The book delineates the ways in which “faithful witness” and the forging of a common good – at local, national, and global levels – emerge through a dynamic of listening, judgment, and proclamation between Christians and those of ...
G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007), 35; W. D. Davies and Dale C. Allison Jr., Matthew, ed. ... 422-24; Donald A. Hagner, Matthew 14–28, Word Biblical Commentary 33b (Dallas: Word, 1995), 470; Craig S. Keener, ...
Monter, Calvin's Geneva, 82–83; Baker, “Christian Discipline, Church and State, and Toleration,” 44–48. Cf. Marian Hillar and Claire S. Allen, Michael Servetus: Intellectual Giant, Humanist, and Martyr (Lanham, MD: University Press of ...
This work argues that casuistry provided an important resource for Donne and others caught in the welter of conflicting laws and religions in post-Reformation Europe. Focussing on Donne's works, the...
This book offers a well-rounded public theology as an alternative to contemporary debates about politics.
In A Humanist in Reformation Politics Mads Langballe Jensen offers the first contextual account of the political philosophy and natural law theory of the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560).