A Humanist in Reformation Politics
A Humanist in Reformation Politics

Author: Mads L. Jensen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-11-04

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9004414134

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This book is the first contextual account of the political philosophy and natural law theory of the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560). Mads Langballe Jensen presents Melanchthon as a significant political thinker in his own right and an engaged scholar drawing on the intellectual arsenal of renaissance humanism to develop a new Protestant political philosophy. As such, he also shows how and why natural law theories first became integral to Protestant political thought in response to the political and religious conflicts of the Reformation. This study offers new, contextual studies of a wide range of Melanchthon's works including his early humanist orations, commentaries on Aristotle's ethics and politics, Melanchthon's own textbooks on moral and political philosophy, and polemical works.

Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms
Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms

Author: William J. Wright

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0801038847

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A leading Reformation scholar historically reassesses the original breadth of Luther's theology of the two kingdoms and the cultural contexts from which it emerged.

Major Thinkers in Welfare
Major Thinkers in Welfare

Author: Victor George

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1847427065

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Focusing on a range of welfare issues this book examines the views, values and perceptions of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century, including Plato, St Aquinas, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft and Marx.

From Humanism to Hobbes
From Humanism to Hobbes

Author: Quentin Skinner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1108622437

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The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in Machiavelli's The Prince as well as in several of Shakespeare's plays, notably Coriolanus. The second half of the book examines the humanist background to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. A major new essay discusses his typically humanist preoccupation with the visual presentation of his political ideas, while other chapters explore the rhetorical sources of his theory of persons and personation, thereby offering new insights into his views about citizenship, political representation, rights and obligations and the concept of the state.

Renaissance Civic Humanism
Renaissance Civic Humanism

Author: James Hankins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780521548076

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The evolution of republican concepts compared to medieval and early modern traditions of political thought.

Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance
Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance

Author: David Price

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780472113439

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This lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and challenging new perspective on the life and Work of Dürer

A Christian Manifesto
A Christian Manifesto

Author: Francis A. Schaeffer

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781581346923

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Schaeffer shows how law, government, education, and media have all contributed to a shift from America's Judeo-Christian foundation. He calls for a massive movement to reestablish these values that the country was founded upon.

Reassessing Tudor Humanism
Reassessing Tudor Humanism

Author: J. Woolfson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-06-19

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0230506275

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This collection of essays by an international team of experts, explores the wideranging impact of Renaissance humanism on sixteenth century England. Investigating areas as diverse as art, education, religion, political thought, literature and science, the book offers fresh and challenging accounts of prominent Tudor figures such as Thomas More, William Tyndale and John Foxe. As well as historiographical overviews of the subject and a discussion of the fifteenth century background to Tudor developments, one of the book's central themes is the nature of England's fundamental cultural experiences in relation to continental Europe.