TY - BOOK ID - 102156577 TI - Politics, religion and the British revolutions : The mind of Samuel Rutherford PY - 1997 SN - 0521581729 0521893194 051158525X 0511003587 9780511003585 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Presbyterian Church KW - Clergy KW - Biography. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Rutherford, Samuel, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:102156577 AB - This is the first modern intellectual biography of the Scottish Covenanters' great theorist Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600-61). The central focus is on Rutherford's political thought and his major treatise, Lex, Rex, written in 1644 as a justification of the Covenanters' resistance to King Charles I. The book demonstrates that while Lex, Rex provided a careful synthesis of natural-law theory and biblical politics, Rutherford's Old Testament vision of a purged and covenanted nation ultimately subverted his commitment to the politics of natural reason. The book also discusses a wide range of other topics, including scholasticism and humanism, Calvinist theology, Presbyterian ecclesiology, Rutherford's close relationships with women and his fervent spirituality. It will therefore be of considerable interest to a range of scholars and students working on Scottish and English history, Calvinism and Puritanism, and early modern political thought. ER -