The peril and promise of Christian liberty : Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant political theology 9781467447027, 1467447021

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The peril and promise of Christian liberty : Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant political theology
 9781467447027, 1467447021

Table of contents :
"Different kings and different laws" : Christian liberty and the conflict of loyalties since the Reformation --
Freedom for the neighbor : Christian liberty and the demand for edification --
"Exact precise severity" : the Puritan challenge to prince and conscience --
Richard Hooker and the freedom of a "politic society" : between legalism and libertinism --
Harmonized loyalties : conscience, reason, and corporate moral agency --
The soul of a Christian commonwealth : politics in submission to the Word --
"The truth will set you free" : the peril and promise of Christian liberty.

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