• An Evangelical Commonwealth: Johannes Eisermann on Law and the Common Good

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2002
    Subject(s):
    Law, Religion, History, Christianity, Protestantism, Christians
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Johannes Eisemann, Lutheran, Christian
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/2z15-pj25
    Abstract:
    This essay, dedicated to Professor Lindberg in admiration and appreciation, introduces one such Lutheran jurist, Johannes Eisermann (ca. 1485-1558). Eisermann, a former student of Philipp Melanchthon, was the founding law professor of the new Evangelical University of Marburg and counselor to one of the strongest Lutheran princes of the day, Landgrave Philipp of Hesse. He took the new evangelical theology to heart and sought to translate it into new legal terms, both statutory and theoretical. Particularly important was Eisermann's work on the origin, nature, and purpose of a Christian commonwealth, which was first published in 1533. This was one of the first detailed statements of evangelical legal and political theory, and it anticipated many of the more famous political formulations of Protestant writers in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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    Publisher:
    Concordia Publishing House
    Pub. Date:
    2002
    Book Title:
    Caritas et Reformatio: Essays in Honor of Carter Lindberg
    Author/Editor:
    David M. Whitford
    Page Range:
    73 - 87
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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