EMORY UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN LAW AND RELIGION

John Witte Jr., General Editor

BOOKS IN THE SERIES

Faith and Order: The Reconciliation of Law and Religion

Harold J. Berman

Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics

Stephen J. Grabill

Lex Charitatis:
A Juristic Disquisition on Law in the Theology of Martin Luther

Johannes Heckel

Political Agape: Christian Love and Liberal Democracy

Timothy P. Jackson

The Best Love of the Child:
Being Loved and Being Taught to Love as the First Human Right

Timothy P. Jackson, ed.

The Ten Commandments in History:
Mosaic Paradigms for a Well-Ordered Society

Paul Grimley Kuntz

Religious Liberty, Volume 1: Overviews and History

Douglas Laycock

Religious Liberty, Volume 2: The Free Exercise Clause

Douglas Laycock

The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty:
Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology

W. Bradford Littlejohn

Secular Government, Religious People

Ira C. Lupu and Robert W. Tuttle

Building Cultures of Trust

Martin E. Marty

Suing for America’s Soul:
John Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute, and Conservative Christians in the Courts

R. Jonathan Moore

Theology of Law and Authority in the English Reformation

Joan Lockwood O’Donovan

Power over the Body, Equality in the Family:
Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law

Charles J. Reid Jr.

Religious Liberty in Western Thought

Noel B. Reynolds and W. Cole Durham Jr., eds.

Hopes for Better Spouses:
Protestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America

A. G. Roeber

Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society

James W. Skillen and Rockne M. McCarthy, eds.

The Idea of Natural Rights:
Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law, and Church Law, 1150-1625

Brian Tierney

The Fabric of Hope: An Essay

Glenn Tinder

Liberty: Rethinking an Imperiled Ideal

Glenn Tinder

Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives

Johan D. van der Vyver and John Witte Jr., eds.

Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms:
A Study in the Development of Reformed Social Thought

David VanDrunen

Early New England: A Covenanted Society

David A. Weir

God’s Joust, God’s Justice

John Witte Jr.

Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives

John Witte Jr. and Johan D. van der Vyver, eds.

Justice in Love

Nicholas Wolterstorff

The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty

Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology

W. Bradford Littlejohn

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Published 2017

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ISBN 978-0-8028-7256-2

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Littlejohn, W. Bradford, author.

Title: The peril and promise of Christian liberty : Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant political theology / W. Bradford Littlejohn.

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