God’s Caring Vice-Regent: The Lutheran Transformation of the Senecan Ideal of the Benevolent Monarch as the Basis of Absolutism and Social Responsibility
This article centres on the role of the Lutheran confession in societal development in the Nordic countries, especially Denmark. Using the concept of social imaginaries, it argues that the Lutheran Reformation refined a monarchical ideology already existent in ancient Roman stoicism that both moved...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Toronto journal of theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-146 |
| RelBib Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia KDD Protestant Church VA Philosophy |
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Scandinavian political history
B Seneca Indians B confessional society B Benevolence B Luther |
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