Early Calvinist Resistance Theory
New Perspectives on an Old Label
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20384657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glen Bowman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 309-319 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Law and Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0748-0814 • E-ISSN: 2163-3088 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s074808140000268x |
| OpenAlex | W2496024423 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
In the article The Use of Natural Law in Early Calvinist Resistance Theory , David VanDrunen, Robert B. Strimple Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Westminster Seminary (California), analyzes natural law as it appeared in the writings of several sixteenth—century resistance theorists—John Knox, Christopher Goodman, John Ponet, Theodore Beza, Francois Hotman, and the unknown writer of Vindiciae contra Tyrannos . Van Drunen's article is much needed, since Richard Tuck, in his otherwise astute 1979 study on natural law, does not adequately address Reformation-era developments, focusing instead on Thomas Hobbes, Samuel Pufendorf, and other seventeenth-century theorists. Nevertheless, I take issue with Van Drunen's assertion that these writers were all “committed to the theology of Calvin” and were “early Calvinist resistance theorists.” One could make the case that most of these writers were, but there is one notable exception: English reformer, humanist, bishop, and polemicist John Ponet
Assertion · Calvinism · Epistemology · Humanism · Natural law · Natural Philosophy · Political science · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · Historical Legal Studies and Society · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
John Ponet (1516?-1556) advocate of limited monarchy
Anglicans and Puritans?
The Elizabethan Puritan movement
Natural Rights Theories
The Revolution of the Saints
Calvin and Bullinger on the Lord's Supper
The Political Thought of Martin Luther
The Use of Natural Law in Early Calvinist Resistance Theory
Revolutionary England and the National Covenant
Peter Martyr Vermigli 1499-1562
Protestantism and the National Church in Sixteenth Century England
Grace and Gratitude
The Christian's ABC
The Origins and Early Development of English Covenant Thought
Revolutionary England and the National Covenant
Elizabethan Catholics and Romans 13
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |