Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority [Paperback]

Luther's On Secular Authority and Calvin's On Civil Government, translated here, attempt to find a balance between Reformed Christians and the secular authorities.These new, unabridged translations of Luther's On Secular Authority and Calvin's On Civil Government represent the author's attempts to balance commitments between the maintenance of order in the Church and the polity and uncompromising obedience to the will of God.These new, unabridged translations of Luther's On Secular Authority and Calvin's On Civil Government represent the author's attempts to balance commitments between the maintenance of order in the Church and the polity and uncompromising obedience to the will of God.This volume contains new, unabridged translations of Luther's On Secular Authority and Calvin's On Civil Government. These works represent the authors' attempts to balance their commitments to the maintenance of order in Church and polity on the one hand, and the overriding imperative of uncompromising obedience to the will of God as revealed in Scripture on the other. The book is intended to be readily intelligible to students and nonspecialists, but precise enough for scholars. The introduction relates the works to the thought and activities of their authors, and a glossary, chronology and bibliography are also provided.Acknowledgements; Introduction; Translator's note; Chronology; Glossary; Notes on further reading; On Secular Authority; On Civil Government; Index.'Dr H?pfl has provided his readers with an excellent translation of two seminal reformation texts realting to secular authroity & It deserves to become a standard text for any concerned with sixteenth-century political thought.' Journal of Theological Studies