Protestant Churches in a Catholic Kingdom: Political Assemblies in the Thought of Philippe Duplessis-Mornay
After the Wars of Religion the French Protestant leadership needed ideological arguments to justify their continuing general assemblies. The assemblies' spokesman, Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, argued for a historical conjunction of the good of the churches and the good of the state. His writings...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1990
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1990, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 543-557 |
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| Summary: | After the Wars of Religion the French Protestant leadership needed ideological arguments to justify their continuing general assemblies. The assemblies' spokesman, Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, argued for a historical conjunction of the good of the churches and the good of the state. His writings in the 1590s demonstrated the Huguenots' unswerving loyalty to the Crown and that the national assemblies' first priority, the security of the Reformed churches, was also crucial to the security of the realm. Mornay asserted that the assemblies after 1598 accomplished two things: they made sure the Edict of Nantes was implemented according to the king's intentions, and they allowed the churches to take their place in a kingdom of corps, all of which served royal authority. These arguments helped move Huguenot thinking away from the resistance theories of the Vindiciae contra Tyrannos to a doctrine of security dependent on the king's good will. Use of the corporative model also obscured religious difference; both Protestants and Catholics became equal in their obedience to the king. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2542186 |