The Political Bible in Early Modern England

di Kevin Killeen (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2020

This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a critical role in shaping early modern political thinking. Kevin Killeen demonstrates how biblical kings were as important in the era's political thought as any classical model. The book mines the rich and neglected resources of early modern quasi-scriptural writings - treatise, sermon, commentary, annotation, poetry and political tract - to show how deeply embedded this political vocabulary remained, across the century, from top to bottom and across all religious positions. It shows how constitutional thought, in this most tumultuous era of civil war, regicide and republic, was forged on the Bible, and how writers ranging from King James, Joseph Hall or John Milton to Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes can be better understood in the context of such vigorous biblical discourse.

• Autore: Kevin Killeen
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 322 p.
• Dimensioni: 230 x 153 mm
• Peso: 400 gr.
• EAN: 9781107518421

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