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Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford

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Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford - Coffey, John
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This is the first modern intellectual biography of the Scottish Covenanters' great theorist Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600-61). The central focus is on Rutherford's political thought and his major treatise, Lex, Rex, written in 1644 as a justification of the Covenanters' resistance to King Charles I. The book demonstrates that while Lex, Rex provided a careful synthesis of natural-law theory and biblical politics, Rutherford's Old Testament vision of a purged and covenanted nation ultimately subverted his commitment to the ...

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Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford 2002, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521893190

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Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford 1997, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521581721

Hardcover