Protestant Intellectual Culture and Political Ideas in the Scottish Universities, ca. 1600–50

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ID10244446
AuthorsKarie Schultz (0000-0001-5195-1664, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume83
Issue1
Pages41-62
Publication date2022-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jhi.2022.0002
PMID35185023
OpenAlexW4213309333
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

This article examines the teaching of political ideas at the Scottish universities between 1600 and 1650. It demonstrates that regents did not direct their students toward one consistent Reformed view of political participation as a divinely mandated duty to control sin and advance the true religion, a position frequently advanced in contemporary printed works. Instead, university education provided students with a cross-confessional intellectual framework that emphasized both Augustinian and Aristotelian elements of early modern political thought. These differences would become essential for the languages of political legitimacy advanced by Scottish Reformed intellectuals during the wars of the 1640s

Confessional · Duty · Legitimacy · Political culture · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Social science · Sociology · Classics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Scottish History and National Identity

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