Reformation and Society: Collected Essays Examining Sources, Nations, and Legacies of Reformations

This volume presents expanded papers originally delivered at a 2024 symposium entitled Reformation and Society, sponsored by Westminster Theological Seminary and the Departments of English, Philosophy and Religion, and History at Hillsdale College. The collected papers explore the dynamics of authority across history, philosophy, and theology, particularly as these dynamics shaped emerging political questions on the Continent, in the British Isles, and in New England.

Contributors:

• Introduction: Reformation and Society – Nathan Nocchi and Patrick Timmis
• Daniel Tossanus and the Stages of Reformation – Todd M. Rester
• The Contested Legacy of Renaissance Platonism in Jesuit Thought – Matthew Gaetano
• Symbol and Symbolized: The Platonic Presence in Suárez – Catherine Sims Kuiper
• The Church as Estate: A Reconsideration and Integration of Martin Luther's Ecclesiology – Jonathan Mumme
• Clemency and Correction: Peter Martyr Vermigli on the Punitive Duty of the Civil Magistrate – Joshua Benjamins
• Martin Luther in Reformation England: Received, Rejected, or Revised? – Korey D. Maas
• The Purest Forms of Christian Prayer Anywhere in the World: Cranmer's Reforms of the Liturgy – Adam D. Rick
• The Magistrate and the Holy Commonwealth: John Davenant and Richard Baxter on Magisterial Authority and the Cura Religionis – Michael J. Lynch
• A Polity of Submission: James Ussher's Structure of Ecclesiological and Royal Authority – Harrison Perkins
• Unquestionable and Indivisible: James Ussher's Political Theology of Sovereignty – Adam M. Carrington
• Moses, Aristotle, and the Royal Supremacy: Unlikely Sources of Religious Toleration in Richard Hooker in Early Modern Political Theology – Brad Littlejohn 
• Theophilus Gale's Religious Foundation of the City – Nathan Nocchi 
• John Milton and the Family of God – Patrick Timmis
• Reformation Parable Interpretation: An Unacknowledged Forerunner to Late Twentieth-Century Parable Hermeneutics, and John Milton's Place in It – David V. Urban
• Establishment Transported: The Causes of Expanded Toleration in Early Eighteenth-Century New England – Timon L. Cline
• The Sources of Samuel Adams' Doctrine of Resistance – Peter A. Lillback