Here is Melanchthon on Romans 13 from the Dispositio orationis in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos with the next two paragraphs added. Translation Romans 13 Proposition: “Let everyone be subject to his own magistracy.”((The word magistratus can mean both “magistracy” (the...
political thought
Melanchthon on Romans 13 (5)
On the necessity of civil ordinances, such as laws, contracts, and courts.
Melanchthon on Romans 13 (4)
On respect for magistrates.
Melanchthon on Romans 13 (3)
Melanchthon on Romans 13 and Plato’s Republic.
Melanchthon on Romans 13 (2)
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Melanchthon on Romans 13 (1)
The first in a series on Melanchthon on Romans 13.
The Magistrate as “Shepherd of the People”
Niels Hemmingsen on rulers as shepherds.
The Christian Right (and Wrong)
“Protestants and American Conservatism” provides useful history, but a more charitable and accurate assessment is needed to develop a contemporary Protestant political theology
The Neglected Craft: Prudence in Reformed Political Thought
Aristotle described politics as involving art or craft (techne). It, too, required skill. It, too, could produce excellent, even wondrous edifices: regimes. Once upon a time, the Reformed tradition saw politics in the same manner. Althusius, for example, spoke of “the art of governing.”[1] Joseph Caryl, a Westminster Divine, described rulers as engaging in an “art” or a “craft.” These thinkers, moreover, developed this artistry, doing so consciously within a Reformed framework.