A humanist in Reformation politics : Philipp Melanchthon on political philosophy and natural law / by Mads Langballe Jensen.
2020
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Title
A humanist in Reformation politics : Philipp Melanchthon on political philosophy and natural law / by Mads Langballe Jensen.
Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Description
xii, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
Early modern natural law ; volume 3. 2589-5982
Formatted Contents Note
Preface: Melanchthon's natural law as a combative concept
Introduction: Melanchthon, political philosopher of the Protestant Reformation
Sedition, tyranny, and law in the early 1520s
"The causes that lead us to institute government and obey rulers"
A true and learned philosophy according to the law of God
Liberty, tyranny, and defence of the true religion
Conclusion: Melanchthonian moral philosophy and the beginnings of Protestant natural law.
Introduction: Melanchthon, political philosopher of the Protestant Reformation
Sedition, tyranny, and law in the early 1520s
"The causes that lead us to institute government and obey rulers"
A true and learned philosophy according to the law of God
Liberty, tyranny, and defence of the true religion
Conclusion: Melanchthonian moral philosophy and the beginnings of Protestant natural law.
Summary
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 as 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and indexes.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Jensen, Mads L. Humanist in reformation politics. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020]
Call Number
BR339 .J46 2020
Language
English
ISBN
9789004412002 hardcover
900441200X hardcover
9789004414136 e-book
900441200X hardcover
9789004414136 e-book
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