What was a religious war before the invention of our modern secular sphere? How did the most prestigious intellectuals in early modern society distinguish wars fought for natural purposes from wars fought for supernatural purposes, when human reason itself was thought to be a gift from God? Read more about our aims
Ian Campbell and Floris Verhaart (eds), Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin: Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Routledge: Oxon, 2022), ISBN: 9780367525088 The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare. … More Book: Protestant Politics beyond Calvin
War and the University in the Sixteenth Century Queen’s University Belfast, 28th – 30th of June, 2018 Conference Programme Thursday, 28th of June 14:00 – 14:15 Welcome & Introduction by Ian Campbell 14:15 – 15:45 Session 1, Chair: Ian Campbell, Queen’s University Belfast ‘How (not) to justify a massacre?: Violence, Emotion and Just War in … More Conference: War and the University in the Sixteenth Century
‘Duns Scotus and Politics: The Power of the Prince and the Conversion of the Jews’ Dr Sylvain Piron, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. The Meredith Room, 23 University Square, 23.01.009, Queen’s University Belfast, 4pm, Thursday 5th April 2018. The fourteenth-century Franciscan theologian, John Duns Scotus argued that Christian princes were positively obliged … More Colloquium: Franciscan Forced Baptism
War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe 