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saw the Magdeburg Confession as an example of how to respond to political abuse of tyranny, and that it was a "major distillation of the most advanced Lutheran resistance theories of the day, which the Calvinist tradition absorbed."
21: 73:" in a state, faced with the situation where the "supreme power" is working to destroy true religion, may go further than non-cooperation with the supreme power and assist the faithful to resist. 236:– a site maintained by the American pastor Matthew Trewhella – advertises a modern translation (from the original Latin) by Matthew Colvin, published via Amazon Createspace. 66: 264: 207: 173: 126: 254: 259: 161: 118: 79:
calls it "the first Protestant religious justification of the right of defense against unjust higher authorities."
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law, and were prepared to resist its implementation with force if necessary. The Magdeburg Confession calls for
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Confession, Instruction, and Admonition of the pastors and preachers of the Christian congregations of Magdeburg
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The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism
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Counter-Reformation and Price Revolution, 1559–1610
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Magdeburg
Lutheran
statement of faith
Magdeburg
Augsburg Interim
Roman Catholicism
imperial
resistance
subordinate powers
Carter Lindberg
John Witte
Theodore Beza


Witte, John
The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9780521818421
Wernham, R. B.
Counter-Reformation and Price Revolution, 1559–1610
Cambridge University Press
98
ISBN
9780521045438
Lindberg, Carter
The European Reformations
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN

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