This volume contains new, unabridged translations of Luther\'s On Secular Authority and Calvin\'s On Civil Government.
The introduc.
The book is intended to be readily intelligible to students and nonspecialists, but precise enough for scholars.
These works represent the authors\' attempts to balance their commitments to the maintenance of order in Church and polity on the one hand, and the overriding imperative of uncompromising obedience to the will of God as revealed in Scripture on the other.
This volume contains new, unabridged translations of Luther\'s On Secular Authority and Calvin\'s On Civil Government