{"product_id":"calvin-and-the-whigs-a-study-in-historical-political-theology-paperback","title":"Calvin and the Whigs: A Study in Historical Political Theology - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRuben Alvarado\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe relationship between Calvinist political theory and John Locke's\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eTwo Treatises on Civil Government \u003c\/em\u003ehas been debated for some time, and\u003cbr\u003e the consensus is that Locke's theory constitutes the further\u003cbr\u003e development of Calvinist theory. But upon closer analysis, that\u003cbr\u003e conclusion proves entirely flawed. Calvinism proves to be worlds apart\u003cbr\u003e from the political philosophy of John Locke. It proves to be the mature\u003cbr\u003e fruit of the medieval \"two swords\" form of government, in which church\u003cbr\u003e and state share public power, rather than an early stage on the road to the\u003cbr\u003e dissociation of church and state, a road which Locke put us firmly upon\u003cbr\u003e with his own formulation of political power. Indeed, upon closer\u003cbr\u003e inspection Calvinism proves to be the product of a thousand-year\u003cbr\u003e tradition of Western political thought commencing with Augustine\u003cbr\u003e and moving through the Carolingian Renaissance and the Papal\u003cbr\u003e Revolution. That history is rediscovered and outlined in this book, as\u003cbr\u003e the preliminary means for recovering the true meaning of political\u003cbr\u003e Calvinism and its utter discontinuity with the modernism that\u003cbr\u003e commenced with Locke's paradigm. It also helps disabuse us of the\u003cbr\u003e notion that history is linear, and that progress is straightforward. Rather, \u003cbr\u003e it helps us to understand the deformational period of history in which\u003cbr\u003e we live, and the need for a return to a confessional understanding of law, \u003cbr\u003e the state, and constitutionalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51793539268896,"sku":"9789076660479","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d855945618e1fb02a7b3a4f5079b0292.webp?v=1780723462","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/calvin-and-the-whigs-a-study-in-historical-political-theology-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}