POL 719 Political Thought of the Reformation Tradition
Explores the tradition of political thinking connected to the theology of the Protestant Reformation. Beginning with St. Paul and Augustine, traces this expression in Luther, Calvin, and European Anabaptism; follows its development in Winthrop, Penn, Williams, and Wesley; and considers its modern extension in figures like Kuyper, Dooyeweerd, Niebuhr, and Ellul. Considers the relation of this tradition to contemporary spokesmen for Protestant political thought and activism.