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This book is the first contextual account of the political philosophy and natural law theory of the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560). Mads Langballe Jensen presents Melanchthon as a significant political thinker in his own right and an engaged scholar drawing on the intellectual arsenal of renaissance humanism to develop a new Protestant political philosophy. As such, he also shows how and why natural law theories first became integral to Protestant political thought in response to the political and religious conflicts of the Reformation. This study offers new, contextual studies of a wide range of Melanchthon's works including his early humanist orations, commentaries on Aristotle's ethics and politics, Melanchthon's own textbooks on moral and political philosophy, and polemical works.
Price: $137.00
Pages: 222
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Early Modern Natural Law: Studies & Sources
Publication Date:
07 November 2019
ISBN: 9789004412002
Format: Hardcover
"[...] wird er neut deutlich, dass ihm eine sorgfältig gearbeitete, stringent argumentierende Studie gelungen ist, die zugleich quellennah vorgeht und Melanchthons Thesen in überzeu gender Weise sowohl in zeitgenössische Debatten wie in politische Konflikte einordnet". Jan-Hendryk de Boer, in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, 48 (2021), pp. 149-151.
Mads Langballe Jensen, Ph.D. (2014), University College London, is post-doctoral research assistant at Royal Holloway University of London. He has published on Protestant political thought from the Reformation to the early eighteenth century. This is his first book.