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Jonathan McIntosh – Evaluating Calvin: A Critique of “On Civil Government”
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Calvin’s “On Civil Government,” from book 4, ch. 20 of his Institutes, is a foundational text in Reformed political theory. Though Calvin situates himself within the classical natural law tradition, adapting it to a new, Protestant context, in important ways his work marks a regression from some of the more liberalizing tendencies of earlier natural law theory in favor of a new, more authoritarian emphasis.
Recorded January 30, 2021 at the 2021 Winter Forum in Moscow, Idaho. The George Buchanan Forum was created to further develop consistent Christian thought through the integration of theology, Natural Law, and history.
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