Because of your hardness of heart': Calvin and the limits of law
This article proposes that Calvin's hardness of heart' principle functions as a substantive limitation on political authority and the law, creating the legal space for meaningful moral pluralism. Calvin distinguished between the spiritual and civil uses of the law, as well as between the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 69, Issue: 3, Pages: 281-294 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Calvin, Jean 1509-1564
/ Law (Theology)
/ Civil law
/ Natural law
/ Pluralism
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| RelBib Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology NCA Ethics XA Law |
| Further subjects: | B
Resistance
B uses of the law B John Calvin B Government B Civil law B moral pluralism |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |