Recommended Books on Early Reformed Political Theory

Primary Sources

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, esp. Book IV. Chapter 20 — Free Online

Pierre Viret, The Christian and the Magistrate: Roles, Responsibilities, and Jurisdictions

Henry Bullinger, The Decades— esp. Volume 1: Second & Third Decade

Peter Martyr Vermigli, Commentary on Judges

John Knox, The Political Writings of John Knox

The Magdeburg Confession — Free Online

Theodore Beza, The Right of Magistrates Over Their Subjects

John Ponet, A Short Treatise on Political Power

Christopher Goodman, How Superior Powers Ought to Be Obeyed — Free Online

Girolamo Zanchi, On the Law in General

Wolfgang Musculus, On Righteousness, Oaths, and Usury

François Hotman, Francogallia — Free Online

Stephen Junius Brutus, Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos

George Buchanan, Dialogue Concerning the Rights of the Crown of Scotland

Lambert Daneau, Christian Politics

Franciscus Junius, The Mosaic Polity

Franciscus Junius, The Education of the Christian Prince

Bartholomew Keckermann, System of Political Discipline

Johannes Althusius, On Law and Power

Johannes Althusius, Politica

Thomas Godwyn, Moses & Aaron: Civil & Ecclesiastical Rites

Samuel Rutherford, Lex, Rex

John Milton, Areopagitica and Other Political Writings

Richard Baxter, A Holy Commonwealth

Matthew Hale, The Analysis of the Law

Secondary Sources

James Baird, King of Kings

Stephen Wolfe, The Case for Christian Nationalism

Stephen Wolfe, Zachary Garris, Sean McGowan, Reformed Christian Politics

Matthew Trewhella, The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates

John Witte, The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism

David W. Hall, Calvin in the Public Square: Liberal Democracies, Rights, and Civil Liberties

Stephen J. Grabill, Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics

Edmund S. Morgan, Puritan Political Ideas: 1558-1794