Power of Scripture

Andreas Pečar is Professor of Early Modern History at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, where he is Chair of the ‘Enlightenment—Religion—Knowledge’ research cluster and President of the Historical Society of Saxony-Anhalt. He has published on the imperial court in Vienna; political biblicism in England and Scotland; the Enlightenment and its relationship to modernity (with Damien Tricoire); Frederick the Great as author and philosopher; and recently (with Marianne Taatz-Jacobi) on the University of Halle’s historical links with the Prussian government.

Praise for the German Edition:“A timely contribution to the debate about the relationship of politics and religion in the early modern period… Pečar’s book is an extremely useful source of reference for historians of early modern religious and political thought.” • History of European Ideas“The study is written in an engaging way, argues clearly at all times, and vividly depicts the intricate relationship between religious and political thinking, speaking and acting in the English confessional age." • H-Soz-u-Kult

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. England and the Struggle against the AntichristChapter 2. James VI as Supreme Exegete in ScotlandChapter 3. Apologists for Crown Authority: The Divine Right of KingsChapter 4. The Gap between lex dei and Royal AuthorityConclusionBibliographyIndex