Peter Martyr Vermigli’s Political Theology and the Elizabethan Church

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torrance Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Subject

This chapter discusses the theological affinity between the Elizabethan church and Peter Martyr Vermigli, the Italian reformer who spent his later career in Zurich. Vermigli’s thought did not simply migrate from the continent to England. The discussion notes that Vermigli’s English experience as an exile was formative for the development of his political theology and that the English monarchy left an imprint on his subsequent Old Testament commentaries on the subject of kingship. Scottish Covenanters and English puritans in the early seventeenth century nonetheless continued to find the work of Zurich reformers useful for refuting episcopacy. If the political theology of Vermigli was agreeable to the Elizabethan church, conformists associated Calvinism with political sedition on the grounds that reformation in Geneva was born out of revolution.

scholarly journals The English Civil Parish

1916 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Benson Botts
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Special Functions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Special Studies ◽  
English Nationalism ◽  
English Constitutional History ◽  
Source Of Information

English constitutional history, since the beginning of the political revolution in the seventeenth century, has been the subject of study of every civilized nation. This wide spread interest has resulted in a thorough search through English documents for every available source of information. There is however one field of English insitutuional history that has received little attention, that is the development of English vivil parish before the seventeenth century. The origin of the parish in both civil and ecclesiastical forms has recieved some notice from the older constitutional writers, and recently has been made the subject of special studies. The Elizabethan parish has been fully treated in the general works and in monographs dealing with special functions. However, no writer has attempted to trace the consecutive development of the civil parish from its origin to the heighth of its activity in the seventeenth century. This development is peculiarly important from the standpoint of the growth of English nationalism, yet is has been entirely overlooked. (1)

scholarly journals The separation of church and state as the foundation of religious toleration in Locke’s political thought

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Ivan Matic
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Toleration ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Moment

The subject of this paper will be the analysis of the question of religious toleration in the political thought of seventeenth century English philosopher John Locke. The first part of the paper will discuss the foundational principles of Locke?s political thought, particularly his contract theory. The second part will be dedicated to situating his positions on freedom of religion within the domain of that theory, accentuating the moment of separation between church and state. The final part will analyze the implications of religious toleration, as well as its limits, upon which Locke?s criterion of freedom of religion will be critically examined.

England, the Caribbean, and the Settlement of Carolina

1975 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Waterhouse
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Political Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Caribbean

Historians have undertaken a number of specific investigations concerning the social, economic and geographic backgrounds, as well as their motives for emigrating, of those men and women who emigrated from England to Massachusetts, Virginia and Barbados during the course of the seventeenth century. While they have discussed the origins of the South Carolina charter, described the social and political status of the eight proprietors, dissected the Fundamental Constitutions, and examined the means by which the successful settlement of 1670 was organized, historians have neglected to explore the social backgrounds of those men who emigrated directly from England to South Carolina during the colony's initial decades of settlement. In contrast, not only the political but also the social and economic backgrounds of the Barbadian planters who colonized South Carolina have been the subject of a number of historical studies.

scholarly journals POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE LEGITIMATION OF CATHERINE’S COUP OF 1762: “SOLEMN EULOGY” OF KONSTANTIN (BORKOVSKIY)

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
K. D. Bugrov
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Sermons

The paper analyzes the role of political theology of Russian 18th century in the legitimation ideology of Catherine II aimed at justification of the palace coup of 1762. The subject of analysis is the sermon delivered by Konstantin (Borkovskiy) in Moscow on July 10th, 1762, and dedicated to explanation of the events of the coup. The author shows that Konstantin’s sermon deploys two main systems of argumentation: providential appeal to the history understood as uncovering of God’s plan for Russia (Augustinism), and the cult of monarch supported by the historical and Biblical comparisons and the direct glorification of monarch’s specific qualities. These parameters of Konstantin’s sermon could be compared with the earlier block of political sermons of Elizabeth’s age and the other texts which were justifying the coup (official manifestoes, poetical panegyrics). Such comparison allows author to conclude that Augustinism, being an intellectual tool to justify the fall of the monarch, was an unchangeable element of the legitimation ideology of the age, while the glorification of the monarch, being a tool to explain the enthronement of a particular person, was acquiring its ideological content depending on the circumstances. And even though the legitimation strategy of the 1762 coup included secular ideological systems (for instance, natural and Roman law, anti-absolutist rhetoric), the political theology remained pivotal element of Catherine’s legitimation ideology.

Religion, Sovereignty, Messianism

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-61
Author(s):  
Adam Sutcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Modern Period

This chapter focuses on political theology in the seventeenth century through the language of scripture. It talks about the two most dynamic Protestant states of the early modern period, the Dutch Republic and England. It assesses how the identification with Jews provided the theological underpinning for the Dutch Republic and England's self-image as divinely chosen, as well as the theological grammar for the two nations' internal political arguments. The chapter discusses the “Mosaic Republic” as a key reference point of the Dutch Republic and England's polities in the seventeenth century. It also talks about the political fascination with the Jews as an important force in shaping more welcoming policies, such as the readmission of Jews to England in 1656.

Talmudic Self-Refutation (Interpersonality I)

Other Others ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Sergey Dolgopolski
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Ontology ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
The Subject

The chapter works through the emerging and disappearing notion of the political in the Talmud, with the notion and practice of refuting, and the underlying notion of interpersonality rather than intersubjectivity at the center. The analysis in the chapter advances through a case study of a particular notion of refuting in the Talmud, the notion of self-refuting or proving that an argument of one’s conversant is refuting itself. The chapter argues how neither political theology of Schmitt nor political ontology of Rancière suffice to account for interpersonal political relationships in self-refuting. In that venue, the notion of interpersonality emerges as essential for articulating the Talmudic political. That notion emerges by contrast with the intersubjectivity as the foundation of thinking the political in the modern political theory, implying as it does a fundamental loneliness of the subject, both of an individual subject and of a nation as a subject, as well.

scholarly journals Disabilitas dalam Teologi Katolik: Dari Liberalisme ke Politik Kasih

INKLUSI ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Yohanes Wele Hayon
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
Political Action ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Involvement ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
Collective Movement ◽  
The Subject

This article aims to re-question the relevance of Catholic political theology on the level of acceptance of people with disabilities. The author pointed out that the dominant ideology of liberalism, which separates the religious domain from politics, makes the discussion of disability limited to issues of equality. It missed the most sublime dimensions in the subject, namely recognition. So, how the political theology based on collective movement makes this lacking out? Referring to Jesus’ political action, the author argues that political involvement should presuppose a dimension of love that embraces all particulars. It should be based on agency strategy, without being trapped in claims of morality and binary opposition logic. Furthermore, the concept of disability is understood as a universal constitutive dimension that creates limitations as well as calls to be involved. This awareness is the basis for managing collective vulnerability as fellow sinful, unfixed, lacking, and not autonomous subjects.[Artikel ini bertujuan mempertanyakan kembali relevansi teologi politik agama Katolik dalam hal penerimaan terhadap kaum difabel. Di dalam artikel ini, penulis menunjukkan bahwa dominannya ideologi liberalisme yang memisahkan domain agama dari politik menyebabkan diskusi mengenai disabilitas dari perspektif teologi politik terkunci pada kesetaraan dan tidak memerhatikan dimensi paling sublim dalam diri subjek yakni pengakuan. Mengacu pada gerakan politik Yesus, penulis berargumen bahwa keterlibatan politik hendaknya mengandaikan dimensi kasih yang merangkul semua partikular tanpa terjebak pada klaim moralitas dan logika oposisi biner. Dengan menggunakan beberapa terma kunci dari para pemikir post-marxisme, post-strukturalisme dan psikoanalisis, konsep disabilitas dipahami sebagai dimensi konstitutif universal yang menciptakan keterbatasan sekaligus panggilan untuk terlibat. Kesadaran inilah yang menjadi landasan untuk mengelola kerentanan secara kolektif sebagai sesama subjek yang ‘berdosa’, ‘unfixed’, ‘lack’, dan tidak otonom.]

The Political Theology of Schelling

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saitya Brata Das
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Franz Rosenzweig ◽  
Political Works ◽  
The Way

This book rigorously examines the theologico-political works of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, setting his thought against Hegel's and showing how he prepared the way for the post-metaphysical philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida.

“Christians Love the Jews!” The Development of American Philo-Semitism, 1790-1860

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert K. Whalen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Early National Period ◽  
Early National ◽  
Social Views ◽  
British Research

Philo-Semitism is America's enduring contribution to the long, troubled, often murderous dealings of Christians with Jews. Its origins are English, and it drew continuously on two centuries of British research into biblical prophecy from the seventeenth Century onward. Philo-Semitism was, however, soon “domesticated” and adapted to the political and theological climate of America after independence. As a result, it changed as America changed. In the early national period, religious literature abounded that foresaw the conversion of the Jews and the restoration of Israel as the ordained task of the millennial nation—the United States. This scenario was, allowing for exceptions, socially and theologically optimistic and politically liberal, as befit the ethos of a revolutionary era. By the eve of Civil War, however, countless evangelicals cleaved to a darker vision of Christ's return in blood and upheaval. They disparaged liberal social views and remained loyal to an Augustinian theology that others modified or abandoned.

History of the Study of Apocrypha in Early Medieval England

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Brandon W. Hawk
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Early Judaism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Early English

Literature written in England between about 500 and 1100 CE attests to a wide range of traditions, although it is clear that Christian sources were the most influential. Biblical apocrypha feature prominently across this corpus of literature, as early English authors clearly relied on a range of extra-biblical texts and traditions related to works under the umbrella of what have been called “Old Testament Pseudepigrapha” and “New Testament/Christian Apocrypha." While scholars of pseudepigrapha and apocrypha have long trained their eyes upon literature from the first few centuries of early Judaism and early Christianity, the medieval period has much to offer. This article presents a survey of significant developments and key threads in the history of scholarship on apocrypha in early medieval England. My purpose is not to offer a comprehensive bibliography, but to highlight major studies that have focused on the transmission of specific apocrypha, contributed to knowledge about medieval uses of apocrypha, and shaped the field from the nineteenth century up to the present. Bringing together major publications on the subject presents a striking picture of the state of the field as well as future directions.

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