Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions - The Mind of Samuel Rutherford

An intellectual biography of the Scottish theologian and political theorist Samuel Rutherford (1600-61).

List of contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Biography; 3. The scholar; 4. The puritan pastor; 5. The reformed theologian; 6. The political theorist; 7. The ecclesiastical statesman; 8. The national prophet; Conclusion: the failure of godly rule; Bibliography of Samuel Rutherford; General bibliography.

About the author

John Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. He has a particular interest in the rich and complex history of Protestantism in Britain and America and his most recent edited volume is The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559- 1689 (2020). He was part of a team which published a five-volume critical edition of a major seventeenth-century memoir, Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696).

Summary

This is the first modern intellectual biography of the Scottish theologian and political theorist Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600–61). Whose main purpose is to provide a thorough discussion of Rutherford's religious and political ideas, and their role in the ideology of the rebellious Scottish Covenanters.

Product details

• Authors: John Coffey
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.1997
• EAN: 9780521581721
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58172-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 640 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: general, Politische Führer und Führung, RELIGION / Christianity / Presbyterian, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1700 To C 1800, Calvinist, Reformed and Presbyterian Churches