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Author | : Jacques Bénigne Bossuet |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521368070 |
This 1991 book was the first ever English rendition of the classic statement of divine right absolutism, published in 1707. Jacques-Benigne Bossuet argues in the Politics that a general society of the entire human race, governed by Christian charity, has given way (after the Fall) to the necessity of politcs, law, and absolute hereditary monarchy. That monarchy - seen as natural, universal and divinely ordained (beginning with David and Solomon) is defended in the first half of the book. The last part, added soon before Bossuet's death, goes on to take up the rights of the Church, the distinction between absolutism and arbitrariness, and causes of just war. Patrick Riley has provided full supporting materials including a chronology, guide to further reading, and a lucid introduction placing Bossuet in his historical and intellectual context.
Author | : Jacques Ellul |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2012-07-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 161097798X |
Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action and the prophetic function. Ellul's answer to that question, though based on events recorded in the Second Book of Kings, is immediately relevant to contemporary issues and to the church today. Emerging from these reflections is an eloquent testimony to the immense love of God--"which not only creates and saves, but which also in its incomprehensible humility wants to associate man with its work."
Author | : Robert Filmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1685 |
Genre | : Monarchy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : King James VI and I |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1995-01-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316583627 |
James VI and I united the crowns of England and Scotland. His books are fundamental sources of the principles which underlay the union. In particular, his Basilikon Doron was a best-seller in England and circulated widely on the Continent. Among the most important and influential British writings of their period, the king's works shed light on the political climate of Shakespeare's England and the intellectual background to the civil wars which afflicted Britain in the mid-seventeenth century. James' political philosophy was a moderated absolutism, with an emphasis on the monarch's duty to rule according to law and the public good. Locke quoted his speech to parliament of 1610 approvingly, and Hobbes likewise praised 'our most wise king'. This edition is the first to draw on all the early texts of James' books, with an introduction setting them in their historical context.
Author | : Michael Hoelzl |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2006-06-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 144113185X |
This book provides an essential resource for studies in religion and politics. It is divided into three parts, beginning with an introduction outlining the contemporary relevance of reviewing the relationship between the two subject areas; a brief history of the interactions between religion and politics that have pertained both in East and the West, and the key concepts that relate these two fields. The second section comprises a selection of classic readings. This title is ideal for students of both religion and politics and general readers who are interested in the topics.
Author | : Amy R. Caldwell |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2010-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0312640781 |
This primary source collection provides a diverse selection of sources to accompany each chapter of A History of Western Society, Tenth Edition. Each chapter contains at least five sources that present history from the viewpoints of well-known and ordinary individuals alike. Now with 19 visual sources and 30% more documents, this edition offers great breadth and depth in its sources. To foster lively comparative debates, a new “Viewpoints” feature in each chapter highlights two or three documents that address the same topic from different perspectives.
Author | : John Beeler |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2010-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0312640803 |
Accompanies: A history of Western society, 10th ed., and Western society: a brief history, 2nd ed.
Author | : Amy R. Caldwell |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2010-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 031264079X |
Accompanies: A history of Western society, 10th ed., and Western society: a brief history, 2nd ed.
Author | : Eric Gregory |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2008-08-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226307514 |
Augustine—for all of his influence on Western culture and politics—was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition. The result is a book that expands Augustinian imaginations for liberalism and liberal imaginations for Augustinianism. Gregory examines a broad range of Augustine’s texts and their reception in different disciplines and identifies two classical themes which have analogues in secular political theory: love—and related notions of care, solidarity, and sympathy—and sin—as well as related notions of cruelty, evil, and narrow self-interest. From an Augustinian point of view, Gregory argues, love and sin constrain each other in ways that yield a distinctive vision of the limits and possibilities of politics. In providing a constructive argument for Christian participation in liberal democratic societies, Gregory advances efforts to revive a political theology in which love’s relation to justice is prominent. Politics and the Order of Love will provoke new conversations for those interested in Christian ethics, moral psychology, and the role of religion in a liberal society.
Author | : Andrew R. Murphy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108752292 |
William Penn (1644-1718) – Quaker activist, theorist of liberty of conscience, and colonial founder and proprietor – played a central role in the movement for religious liberty on both sides of the Atlantic for more than four decades. This volume presents, for the first time, a fully annotated scholarly edition of Penn's political writings over the course of his long public career, tracing his thinking from his early theorisation of religious toleration and liberty of conscience in England, as a leading member of the Society of Friends during the 1670s, to his colonial undertaking in Pennsylvania a decade later, his controversial role in the years leading up to the 1688 Revolution, and the ongoing consequences of that Revolution to his future prospects. Penn's political writings provide an illuminating window into the increasingly sophisticated and influential movement for liberty of conscience in the early modern world.