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Triune God and the hermeneutics of community: church, gender and mission in Stanley J. Grenz with reference to Paul Ricoeur

John Calvin developed arresting new teachings on rights and liberties, church and state, and religion and politics that shaped the law of Protestant lands. Calvin's original teachings were periodically challenged by major crises - the French Wars of Religion, Dutch Revolt, the English Civil War, American colonization, and American Revolution. In each such crisis moment, a major Calvinist figure emerged - Theodore Beza, Johannes Althusius, John Milton, John Winthrop, John Adams, and others - who modernized Calvin's teachings and translated them into dramatic new legal and political reforms. This rendered early modern Calvinism one of the driving engines of Western constitutionalism. A number of basic Western laws on religious and political rights, social and confessional pluralism, federalism and constitutionalism, and more owe a great deal to this religious movement. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of history, law, religion, politics, ethics, human rights, and the Protestant Reformation.

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The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism

For 2010 the bibliography continues its customary coverage of secondary writings published since 1900 in western European languages on slavery or the slave trade anywhere in the world: monographs, ...

Slavery: annual bibliographical supplement (2010)

iii Acknowledgements v Introduction – Slavery and the Properties of Subjecthood in Imperial Anglo-America 1 Chapter I – Colonial Slavery, Imperial Subjecthood: The Problem of Freedom in Early English Colonization, 1547-1641 30 Chapter II – "Publicke and Sublime Propriety": Slavery and Subjecthood in the Imperial English Revolution, 1641-1660 125 Chapter III – "A Terrible Master": Slavery and the Human Tragedy of the Stuart Counterrevolution, 1660-1687 195 Chapter IV – The Williamite Moment: Property Personhood, and the Transformation of Colonial Slavery, 1689-1714 272 Chapter V – “Britons Never Will be Slaves”: The Passions and the Interests of Late Colonial Slavery, 1715-1754 376 Chapter VI – “This Golden Act of Liberty”: Slavery, Personhood, and the Crisis of Empire, 1754-1783

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This Species of Property: Slavery and the Properties of Subjecthood in Anglo-American Law and Politics, 1619-1783

Scholarly surveys of the medieval Magdalene tend to conclude at the opening of the sixteenth century, dismissing any role she may have had in the teaching of Protestant reformers. Protestant and Catholic attitudes towards sanctity and sainthood have been the object of scholarly work, but my dissertation is the first comparative examination of the different confessions’ uses of the Magdalene tradition through the early modern period. Mary Magdalene was of one of several scriptural women to whom Protestants in Germany, France, Switzerland, and England referred in debating the legitimacy of female and lay preaching. Lutheran and Reformed pastors, Anabaptists, and Quakers all adapted the medieval Magdalene tradition to advance Evangelical theologies of the forgiveness of sins, the sacraments, and the priesthood of all believers. Early modern women also seized on these possibilities, claiming for themselves the Magdalene’s title as preacher and devoted disciple of the Word. The Catholic cult of the Magdalene shifted as well, serving the needs of the Catholic Reformation. In reaction to the Protestant specter of lay and female preaching, male authors in their sermons and devotional work set aside earlier descriptions of the Magdalene as “apostle to the apostles” and emphasized instead her identity as a penitent

Mary Magdalene in the era of Reformation

In 1516, Desiderius Erasmus published the first Greek New Testament. Almost immediately, it became embroiled in controversy and Erasmus was accused of heresy because of critical decisions he made about the text. The most controversial was his decision to not include 1John 5,7, the so-called Comma Johanneum, which was used as a defense of the Trinity. This essay examines the ways in which Erasmus attempted to protect himself and his New Testament from heresy charges as he revised it for its second edition. Then, it offers a further contextualization for why those attempts failed. Erasmus reinserted 1John 5,7 in his third edition.

Yielding to the Prejudices of His Times

Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research

In 1520, Martin Luther’s view of the papacy shifted dramatically and permanently. While the events of 1519 played a role in his evolving view of the papacy as the Antichrist forecast by St. Paul in 2 Thessalonians, those events alone cannot account for the suddenness and the totality of Luther’s change of opinion. This essay argues that Lorenzo Valla’s Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine played a significant and too-little-appreciated role in Luther’s new stance toward the papacy. This essay examines what it was about Valla’s Discourse that helped convince Luther that the pope was the Antichrist.

David M. Whitford

Papers

Yielding to the Prejudices of His Times

Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research

The Papal Antichrist: Martin Luther and the Underappreciated Influence of Lorenzo Valla

Tyranny and Resistance: The Magdeburg Confession and the Lutheran Tradition

The Luther Affair