Violence and Religion

Attitudes towards militancy in the French civil wars and the English Revolution

By: Judy Sproxton

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Hardcover | 2 February 1995 | Edition Number 1

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Challenges to secular authority and relative justifications are recurring themes throughout European history. This book examines the rise of this challenge as it developed during the Reformation with special reference to the social and political upheavals of the French Civil Wars and the English Revolution. The diverse writings of varied influential thinkers and political actors, including Calvin d'Aubigne and Marvell, are considered in the light of contemporary events, and the similarities between their religious interpretations are compared. Each of these writers presents a direct response to what was regarded as a spiritual challenge. Through close textual analysis of these writings the author reconstructs the philosophical terms of one of the major concerns of the period.

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..."well worth exploring.." -"Religious Studies Review, January 1997 "Refreshingly free of jargon. . .It is a straight forward analysis of the views of significant political figures and writers during the French Civil Wars of the late sixteenth century." -Church History, Sept. 97 "Judy Sproxton is unusual in having a deep knowledge both of the French civil wars fo the 16th century and of the 17th century English Revolution. Even more unusually, she is soaked in the literature of the two countries. In consequence her work sheds much new light on both." -Christpher Hill The author...aims to show how the reformation led certain sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries persons to challenge political authority in the name of religion.

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