The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World

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The Influence of Calvin on Five Governments from the 16th Through 18th Centuries Written by Douglas F. Kelly ~The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World: The Influence of Calvin on Five Governments from the 16th Through 18th Centuries~ is a thoughtful challenge to conventional Enlightenment historiography. Kelly's book illustrates...

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The Influence of Calvin on Five Governments from the 16th Through 18th Centuries

Written by Douglas F. Kelly

~The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World: The Influence of Calvin on Five Governments from the 16th Through 18th Centuries~ is a thoughtful challenge to conventional Enlightenment historiography. Kelly's book illustrates the influential Protestants roots of ordered liberty in the Western world, particularly in the United States today. The forgotten founding father of America was really John Calvin. Douglas Kelly illustrates how Calvin and Knox inspired the Protestant doctrine of interposition by the lesser magistrates and public officers against the usurpations of absolutists and despots in the higher echelons of power, and on behalf of the people. Some manner of institutionalized corporate resistance is vitally requisite to preserve any free constitution. -R. Setliff, online

Paperback, 156 pages, notes, index (out-of-print book, new)