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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2009
Print publication year:
1997
Online ISBN:
9780511585258
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585258
Subjects:
British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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Book description

This is the first modern intellectual biography of the Scottish Covenanters' great theorist Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600–61). The central focus is on Rutherford's political thought and his major treatise, Lex, Rex, written in 1644 as a justification of the Covenanters' resistance to King Charles I. The book demonstrates that while Lex, Rex provided a careful synthesis of natural-law theory and biblical politics, Rutherford's Old Testament vision of a purged and covenanted nation ultimately subverted his commitment to the politics of natural reason. The book also discusses a wide range of other topics, including scholasticism and humanism, Calvinist theology, Presbyterian ecclesiology, Rutherford's close relationships with women and his fervent spirituality. It will therefore be of considerable interest to a range of scholars and students working on Scottish and English history, Calvinism and Puritanism, and early modern political thought.

Reviews

‘… a valuable handbook to the various controversies surrounding Puritan and Reformed subjects … authoritative and gives a new standard for works in this area. Highly recommended’.

Source: Evangelical Times

‘It is … a sensitive appraisal of a powerful mind in context, and sheds valuable light on the religious and political history of Caroline and Civil War Britain.’

Source: Journal of Religious History

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