{"product_id":"9789076660479","title":"Calvin and the Whigs: A Study in Historical Political Theology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe relationship between Calvinist political theory and John Locke’s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo Treatises on Civil Government \u003c\/em\u003ehas been debated for some time, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe consensus is that Locke’s theory constitutes the further\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edevelopment of Calvinist theory. But upon closer analysis, that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econclusion proves entirely flawed. Calvinism proves to be worlds apart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom the political philosophy of John Locke. It proves to be the mature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efruit of the medieval “two swords” form of government, in which church\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand state share public power, rather than an early stage on the road to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edissociation of church and state, a road which Locke put us firmly upon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith his own formulation of political power. Indeed, upon closer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einspection Calvinism proves to be the product of a thousand-year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etradition of Western political thought commencing with Augustine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand moving through the Carolingian Renaissance and the Papal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevolution. That history is rediscovered and outlined in this book, as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe preliminary means for recovering the true meaning of political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalvinism and its utter discontinuity with the modernism that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommenced with Locke’s paradigm. It also helps disabuse us of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enotion that history is linear, and that progress is straightforward. Rather,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eit helps us to understand the deformational period of history in which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewe live, and the need for a return to a confessional understanding of law,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe state, and constitutionalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WordBridge Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061159313648,"sku":"9789076660479","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789076660479_p0.jpg?v=1763671115","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789076660479","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}