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John Calvin and the influence of Calvinism on the American Republic: Resources

A guide for Dr. Mark Draper's Presentation

Bibliography:

Gordon, Bruce, and Carl R. Trueman. The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism. First edition. 1 online resource (xvii, 692 pages). vols. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198728818.001.0001.

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Greaves, Richard L. “John Knox, the Reformed Tradition, and the Development of Resistance Theory.” The Journal of Modern History 48, no. 3 (1976): 1–36.

Gunn, T. Jeremy, and John Jr Witte. No Establishment of Religion: America’s Original Contribution to Religious Liberty. 1 online resource (426 pages) vols. Cary: Oxford University Press, 2014. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/lbc/detail.action?docID=4704904.

Höpfl, Harro. The Christian Polity of John Calvin. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge Paperback Library. Cambridge Cambridgeshire ; Cambridge University Press, 1985. 

“John Knox, the Reformed Tradition, and the Development of Resistance Theory on JSTOR.” Accessed December 5, 2022. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1878808#metadata_info_tab_contents.

Kingdon, Robert M. “Social Welfare in Calvin’s Geneva.” The American Historical Review 76, no. 1 (1971): 50–69. https://doi.org/10.2307/1869776.

Mason, Pamela A. “The Genevan Republican Background to Rousseau’s ‘Social Contract.’” History of Political Thought 14, no. 4 (1993): 547–72. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26214337.pdf

Mason, Roger A. “Knox, Resistance and the Moral Imperative.” History of Political Thought 1, no. 3 (1980): 411–36. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26211817.pdf

Niet, Johan de, Herman Paul, and Bart Wallet. Sober, Strict, and Scriptural: Collective Memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000. Boston, UNITED STATES: BRILL, 2009. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/lbc/detail.action?docID=467743.

Romans 13 and Protestant Resistance Theory, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6db098B9zKc.

Skinner, Quentin. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 1978. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam021/78051676.html.

Witte, John Jr. “Moderate (Religious) Liberty in the Theology of John Calvin: The Original Genevan Experiment.” In The Reformation of Rights : Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism, 39–80. Cambridge University Press : Cambridge, 2008. https://lbclibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/154706316

———. The Reformation of Rights Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism. The Reformation of Rights. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Bibliography:

Bratt, James. “The Prism of Calvin’s Political Legacy in the United States.” Reformed Journal (blog), June 1, 2009. https://reformedjournal.com/the-prism-of-calvins-political-legacy-in-the-united-states/.

Carpenter, Matthew. “John Calvin and the American Republic.” The Imaginative Conservative (blog), October 2, 2020. https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/10/john-calvin-american-republic-matthew-carpenter.html.

Dreisbach, Daniel L. “A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants: The Bible, the Right of Resistance, and the American Revolution.” In Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, edited by Daniel L. Dreisbach, 0. Oxford University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199987931.003.0007.

Gardiner, Richard. “The Presbyterian Rebellion: An Analysis of the Perception That the American Revolution Was a Presbyterian War.” Ph.D., Marquette University. Accessed January 17, 2023. https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/docview/304991131/abstract/475B9B3EBEC8475EPQ/6.

Hall, David W. The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding. First paperback edition. 1 online resource (507 pages) vols. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2005. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,sso&db=nlebk&AN=633527&site=ehost-live&scope=site&custid=s7821594&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Cover.

Hall, Mark. “Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos: The Influence of the Reformed Tradition in the American Founding (Chapter 2 of Faith and the Founders of the American Republic).” Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics, January 1, 2014. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/hist_fac/81.

Hall, Mark David. Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic. 1 online resource vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,sso&db=nlebk&AN=811020&site=ehost-live&scope=site&custid=s7821594&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Cover.

Mahaffey, Jerome Dean. Preaching Politics: The Religious Rhetoric of George Whitefield and the Founding of a New Nation. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/lbc/detail.action?docID=298840

Reddinger, William T. “The American Revolution, Romans 13, and the Anglo Tradition of Reformed Protestant Resistance Theory.” American Political Thought 5, no. 3 (2016): 359–90. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/ampolth5&i=360

“The American Presbyterian and Theological Review,” n.d., 30.https://books.google.com/books?id=0kJKAQAAMAAJ&ots=d46LFdFXZt&dq=American%20Presbyterian%20and%20Theological%20Review&lr&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false

Open Digital Theological Library  offers Over 2,000 book chapters, articles, theses and dissertations on Calvin

Post-Reformation Digital Library  Primary source documents from the late 15th-18th centuries

Jean Calvin in the Post-Reformation Digital Library Primary source documents

Greef, Wulfert de. The Writings of John Calvin : An Introductory Guide. Baker Books, 1993. ((Internet Archive))

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