Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I
1. Introduction: Returning to Political Theology
2. Defending Political Theology
3. The Biblical Background to Covenanting
Part II
4. Founding Covenant Theologies: Bullinger and Calvin
5. Regime, Discipline, and Resistance: The Covenant and the Civil Magistrate
6. The Legacies of Geneva and Zurich in England and Scotland
7. Covenant, Revolution, War, and Eschatology
8. Reaching Limits: The Covenant in America
9. Natural Law and Natural Right in Reformed Political Theology
10. The Reformation in Retrospect
Part III
11. Contemporary Perspectives on Covenanting
12. Lessons for Religion and Politics Today
Notes
Works Cited
Index