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Covenant Commonwealth: From Christian Separation Through the Protestant Reformation (Covenant Tradition in Politics/Daniel J. Elazar, Vol 2)
Covenant Commonwealth From Christian Separation Through the Protestant Reformation - Covenant Tradition in Politics/Daniel J. Elazar, Vol 2 Author:Daniel J. Elazar The second volume on the Covenant Tradition in Politics examines covenant as a political idea and its related political tradition with the culture and behavior that they produced, to focus on the struggle in Europe to produce a Christian covenantal commonwealth, a struggle that climaxed in the Reformed Protestantism of the sixteenth and seventee... more »nth centuries. This Christian adaptation of the biblical tradition, the integration of that adaptation with the traditions of the tribal oath societies of Northern Europe, the perforce limited medieval expressions of that synthesis, and the revival of covenant as the architectonic principle of the Protestant Reformation is an intricate and fascinating story. The book also briefly examines covenant and hierarchy in Islam and other premodern polities.« less