Anglický jazyk

Calvin and the Whigs

Vydavateľstvo: Pantocrator Press
Rok vydania: 2017
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9789076660479

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O knihe

The relationship between Calvinist political theory and John Locke's

Two Treatises on Civil Government has been debated for some time, and

the consensus is that Locke's theory constitutes the further

development of Calvinist theory. But upon closer analysis, that

conclusion proves entirely flawed. Calvinism proves to be worlds apart

from the political philosophy of John Locke. It proves to be the mature

fruit of the medieval "two swords" form of government, in which church

and state share public power, rather than an early stage on the road to the

dissociation of church and state, a road which Locke put us firmly upon

with his own formulation of political power. Indeed, upon closer

inspection Calvinism proves to be the product of a thousand-year

tradition of Western political thought commencing with Augustine

and moving through the Carolingian Renaissance and the Papal

Revolution. That history is rediscovered and outlined in this book, as

the preliminary means for recovering the true meaning of political

Calvinism and its utter discontinuity with the modernism that

commenced with Locke's paradigm. It also helps disabuse us of the

notion that history is linear, and that progress is straightforward. Rather,

it helps us to understand the deformational period of history in which

we live, and the need for a return to a confessional understanding of law,

the state, and constitutionalism.