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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext An intellectual biography of the Scottish theologian and political theorist Samuel Rutherford (1600 61). Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
