Concerning the Rights of Rulers Over Their Subjects and the Duty of Subjects Towards Their Rulers
Author : Theodore de Bèze
Publisher :
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
ISBN :
Concerning the Rights of Rulers Over Their Subjects and the Duty of Subjects Towards Their Rulers
Author : Théodore de Bèze
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
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The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding
Author : David W. Hall
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739111062
Book Description
In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that the American founders were more greatly influenced by Calvinism than contemporary scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have understood. Calvinism's insistence on human rulers' tendency to err played a significant role in the founders' prescription of limited government and fed the distinctly American philosophy in which political freedom for citizens is held as the highest value. Hall's timely work countervails many scholars' doubt in the intellectual efficacy of religion by showing that religious teachings have led to such progressive ideals as American democracy and freedom.
The Federalist Papers
Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1528785878
Book Description
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
Research Handbook on Natural Law Theory
Author : Jonathan Crowe
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 1788110048
Book Description
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Human Rights and the Impact of Religion
Author : Hans-Georg Ziebertz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004251405
Book Description
This volume is about the impact of religion (beliefs and practices) on attitudes towards human rights of the first, second and third generation. The first four papers about the impact of Lutheranism, Calvinism, Catholicism and Islam are historical and theoretical of character. The six other papers are based on empirical research in England and Wales, Germany, Turkey, India, Norway and on comparative empirical research in six North-West European countries. From both groups of articles it appears that ‘the’ impact of religion does not exist. In varying historical periods and contexts various religions, c.q. religious denominations, have various effects on attitudes towards human rights, i.e. positive effects (+), ambivalent effects (±), no effects (0), and negative effects (−). Contributors include: Francis-Vincent Anthony, Pal Ketil Botvar, Selim Eren, Leslie Francis, Üzejir Ok, Ruud Peters, Marion Reindl, Mandy Robbins, Rik Torfs, Johannes (Hans) van der Ven, John Witte Jr., Hans-Georg Ziebertz
The Blessings of Liberty
Author : John Witte, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108429203
Book Description
A robust defense of the essential interdependence of human rights and religious freedom from antiquity to the present.
Christianity and Democracy
Author : John W. De Gruchy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 1995-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521458412
Book Description
The need for global democratisation is now widely recognised, but there is considerable debate about what this means and how it can be achieved. In this important study John de Gruchy examines the historic and contemporary roles of Christianity in the development of democracy. He traces the gestation of modern democracy in medieval Christendom, and then describes the virtual breakdown of the relationship as democracy becomes the polity of modernity. Five twentieth-century case studies - the USA, Nicaragua, sub-Saharan Africa, Germany and South Africa - demonstrate the extent to which ecumenical Christianity has begun to reconnect with democracy and act as its contemporary midwife. De Gruchy argues that democracy needs to rediscover its spiritual heritage, while Christianity needs to develop a theology adequate for its participation in the realisation of a just democratic world order.
Brownson's Quarterly Review
Author : Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher :
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 1853
Category : American essays
ISBN :
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Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms
Author : David VanDrunen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802864430
Book Description
Conventional scholarship holds that the theology and social ethics of the Reformed tradition stand at odds with concepts of natural law and the two kingdoms. But David VanDrunen here challenges that status quo through his careful, thoroughgoing exploration of the development of Reformed social thought from the Reformation to the present. - from publisher description.
