Calvin the Magistrate by Gatgounis, George J.

Calvin the Magistrate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781725261174)

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Calvin the Magistrate by Gatgounis, George J.

Calvin the Magistrate

$23.00
Calvin the Magistrate by Gatgounis, George J.

Calvin the Magistrate

$23.00
Format: Paperback
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The legal and political scenario of Calvin's day involved upheavals deriving from the force of religion upon law. Whole cities, provinces, and states came under Reformation influence, ranging from quiet individual conversions to Protestantism to the hysteria of community iconoclasm. The transformation of these societies, however, was not moving away from a religious worldview; rather, the transformation was a movement of one religion to another. In Calvin's day, secularism, pluralism, and religious toleration were nonexistent. Europe was not in the thrall of the question ""Should religion in public life be tolerated?"" but rather ""Which religion should be enforced, to the banning of all others?"" Calvin was a driven man, but a valid question drove him: ""What is the true religion?"" And deriving from the central question were corollaries: ""What law is right law?"" and ""What government is right government?"" Calvin's trek would lead him to answers. Calvin concluded that, substantively, a correct political and legal system derives from the Bible, and procedurally, the system is applied by democratically elected officials, checking and balancing one another--and his views were consistent with a Reformation consensus.

Author: George J. Gatgounis
ISBN-10: 1725261170
ISBN-13: 9781725261174
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2021
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d
By George J. Gatgounis
By George J. Gatgounis
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George J. Gatgounis, a Harvard alumnus, is a published author, trial attorney, ordained minister, and seminary professor. A member of the Harvard Faculty Club, he formerly served as one of the editors of the Harvard Civil Rights Law Review, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. As an active Harvard alumnus, he serves as the moderator of the Harvard Reading Club of Charleston, South Carolina. He serves at Cummins Seminary as Professor of Hebrew Bible, and Professor of Greek Septuagint (LXX), Greek New Testament, and Greek Classics. He is also a South Carolina Supreme Court certified civil court mediator, family court mediator, and civil arbitrator.

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