Reformed Theology and Politics

Harvard HDS

The Reformed Protestant tradition (including Calvinism and Neo-Calvinism) has had a long and complex relationship to politics, spanning from the tradition's sixteenth-century emergence in Europe during times of war, colonization, and state refiguration, to many subsequent political moments: the English Civil War, early American settler colonies; 19th-20th century socialism, fascism, and continued colonization in South Africa and Indonesia; later twentieth-century U.S. dominionism and…