Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: John Calvin, Theocracy, Protestantism
27 Dec 2018
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Living in a time where small political units are emerging. Calvin has practical experience - writes constitutions for geneva. Christian writer that is nearest to being theocrat (church and state united) His polity makes state religious and church political. French - protestant so he resists french government. Gets kicked out of geneva for 3 years because he is too controversial. Most famous work: institutions of christian religion. Deeply influenced by augustine but augustine is pessimistic. We are slaves to own desires - tend to win. Main difference: calvin is more optimistic about the number of people that can be saved. Calvin - in new experiment -city state-
