A Humanist in Reformation Politics

A Humanist in Reformation Politics
Author: Mads L. Jensen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2019-11-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004414134

This book is the first contextual account of the political philosophy and natural law theory of the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560). Mads Langballe Jensen presents Melanchthon as a significant political thinker in his own right and an engaged scholar drawing on the intellectual arsenal of renaissance humanism to develop a new Protestant political philosophy. As such, he also shows how and why natural law theories first became integral to Protestant political thought in response to the political and religious conflicts of the Reformation. This study offers new, contextual studies of a wide range of Melanchthon's works including his early humanist orations, commentaries on Aristotle's ethics and politics, Melanchthon's own textbooks on moral and political philosophy, and polemical works.

After Civic Humanism

After Civic Humanism
Author: Nicholas Scott Baker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: Historiography
ISBN: 9780772721778

Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms

Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms
Author: William J. Wright
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0801038847

A leading Reformation scholar historically reassesses the original breadth of Luther's theology of the two kingdoms and the cultural contexts from which it emerged.

Major Thinkers in Welfare

Major Thinkers in Welfare
Author: Victor George
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1847427065

Focusing on a range of welfare issues this book examines the views, values and perceptions of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century, including Plato, St Aquinas, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft and Marx.

From Humanism to Hobbes

From Humanism to Hobbes
Author: Quentin Skinner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2018-01-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108622437

The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in Machiavelli's The Prince as well as in several of Shakespeare's plays, notably Coriolanus. The second half of the book examines the humanist background to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. A major new essay discusses his typically humanist preoccupation with the visual presentation of his political ideas, while other chapters explore the rhetorical sources of his theory of persons and personation, thereby offering new insights into his views about citizenship, political representation, rights and obligations and the concept of the state.

Renaissance Civic Humanism

Renaissance Civic Humanism
Author: James Hankins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521548076

The evolution of republican concepts compared to medieval and early modern traditions of political thought.

Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance

Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance
Author: David Price
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2003
Genre: Art, Renaissance
ISBN: 9780472113439

This lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and challenging new perspective on the life and Work of Dürer

A Christian Manifesto

A Christian Manifesto
Author: Francis A. Schaeffer
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781581346923

Schaeffer shows how law, government, education, and media have all contributed to a shift from America's Judeo-Christian foundation. He calls for a massive movement to reestablish these values that the country was founded upon.

Reassessing Tudor Humanism

Reassessing Tudor Humanism
Author: J. Woolfson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2002-06-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230506275

This collection of essays by an international team of experts, explores the wideranging impact of Renaissance humanism on sixteenth century England. Investigating areas as diverse as art, education, religion, political thought, literature and science, the book offers fresh and challenging accounts of prominent Tudor figures such as Thomas More, William Tyndale and John Foxe. As well as historiographical overviews of the subject and a discussion of the fifteenth century background to Tudor developments, one of the book's central themes is the nature of England's fundamental cultural experiences in relation to continental Europe.