USED Lex Rex (Rutherford - Canon ed.)

Author: Samuel Rutherford

ISBN: 9781952410536

Binding: paperback

Section: Christianity-General

When Lex, Rex was written, the Reformation in England and Scotland was in crisis. The English Civil War had just begun after Charles I tried to impose popish rituals on the church and asserted his divine right as king to overrule parliament. Against these grandiose claims the Scottish pastor Samuel Rutherford wrote a book that changed western political philosophy forever, enabling the thoughts behind the American revolution. Rutherford shows from Scripture, classical authors, and scholastic theologians that the king is not above the law; and that when the king violates it flagrantly, the people are right to resist him, even to the point of war.