Franciscans and Scotists on War

Franciscan friars were everywhere in the early modern Catholic world. While the political and imperial theories of Dominicans like Francisco de Vitoria and Bartolome de Las Casas, who took the theology of Thomas Aquinas as their starting point, are well-known, this has not been the case for Franciscan thinking until these primary sources.

Auteur

Ian Campbell is Reader in Early Modern Irish History at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He is the author of Renaissance Humanism and Ethnicity before Race: The Irish and the English in the Seventeenth Century (2013), and has edited, with Floris Verhaart, Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin: Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2022).

Todd Rester is Associate Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, US. He has edited, with Stephen M. Coleman, Faith in the Time of Plague (2021), a collection of Protestant and Reformed writings on epidemics. He has translated many early modern Reformed theological works, including (with Andrew McGinnis) Franciscus Junius's Mosaic Polity (2015), and (with Joel R. Beeke) Petrus van Mastrich's Theoretical-Practical Theology (5 vols, 2018-2025).