A presente pesquisa de doutorado tem por finalidade a análise do pensamento político dos principais reformadores que sucedem a Calvino, John Knox e Théodore de Bèze, os primeiros a romperem com a ambiguidade de Calvino quanto ao direito da lícita resistência política aos governos tirânicos, no ano de 1554, e que inauguram a tradição do constitucionalismo calvinista, ao privilegiarem o primeiro uma fundamentação bíblica quase exclusiva e o segundo um forte apelo para fontes seculares, ambos visando à identificação do fenômeno da tirania e a respectiva solução para o problema pela via da teoria constitucional das magistraturas inferiores. Em seus escritos dispersos, especialmente nos tratados publicados em 1558 em Genebra e posteriormente em sua História da Reforma Escocesa, na qual é narrada a primeira aplicação prática da teoria das magistraturas inferiores em um Estado-nação a protagonizar uma reforma e revolução calvinista, John Knox desenvolve sua teoria acerca do direito de resistência com estrita observância das Escrituras, em especial as narrativas do Antigo Testamento, das quais extrai uma legalidade bíblica, e compara suas exortações às dos antigos profetas bíblicos quanto ao dever de combater as tiranias com a ação dos magistrados civis apoiados pelo povo. Em Théodore de Bèze, o foco será a abordagem secularizada do fenômeno da tirania, sem prejuízo de uma compatibilidade com as Escrituras, remetendo à construção teórico-conceitual do fenômeno da tirania do jurista medieval Bartolo de Sassoferrato tirania ex parte exercitii e tirania ex defectu tituli e identificar na sua principal obra política Do Direito dos Magistrados (1574) os meios humanos de combate à tirania, os Estados Gerais e os magistrados inferiores, instâncias incumbidas das funções militares e judiciais, graças a um contratualismo secular, amparado em precedentes na história profana extraídos da Antiguidade Clássica, Idade Média e da época do próprio Bèze. Por fim, pretende-se identificar o legado desses autores nas revoluções calvinistas e em autores relacionados a tais eventos: a revolta nos Países Baixos e Althusius, a Revolução na Inglaterra e John Milton (ainda que rompesse com o calvinismo, em termos de teoria política, operou em suas obras com teses de Calvino, Knox e Bèze); a Revolução Norte-Americana e a organização política proposta pela Constituição do novo país defendida por Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison e John Jay) e a introdução no sistema jurídico-político brasileiro dessa tradição pelo calvinista Rui Barbosa (não por razões religiosas mas sim por seu projeto liberal, manifestado sobretudo em seus escritos políticos, no Decreto Federal nº 1 de 15 de Novembro de 1889 e em seu papel desempenhado no projeto da Constituição de 24 de Fevereiro de 1891). Objetiva-se apontar, no bojo dessa tradição, a ambiguidade do pastoreio, que privilegia a ação política efetiva pelos magistrados inferiores em detrimento do protagonismo político do povo, que seria posto numa situação de tutela, o que pouco contribui para que se aceite sem maiores receios o celebrado lugar-comum da contribuição do calvinismo para o desenvolvimento dos regimes democráticos no Ocidente. / This research aims to analyze the political thought of the leading reformers succeeding Calvin John Knox and Théodore de Bèze who are also the precursors of breaking up with Calvins ambiguity concerned to the lawful right of political resistance against tyrannical governments, in 1554. They started the tradition of the Calvinist constitucionalism by privileging, the first, an almost exclusively biblical foundation, and the second, a strong appeal to secular sources; both attempting to acknowledge the tyranny phenomenon and its solution by the constitutional doctrine of the lesser magistrate. In his writings, especially the treatises published in Geneva, in 1558, and the History of the Scottish Reformation, in which he approaches the first practical application of the doctrine of the lesser magistrate in a nation-state protagonist of a Calvinist reformation and revolution, John Knox develops his theory about the right of resistance under strict observance of the Scriptures mainly the narratives of the old Testament, of which he extracts a biblical legality comparing his own exhortations about the duty of fighting tyranny through the action of lesser civil magistrates supported by the people to the old prophets exhortations. In the other hand, Theodore de Bèze focuses the secularized approach to the tyranny phenomenon, considering the compatibility with the Scriptures, when referring to the theoretical and conceptual study of the tiranny phenomenon by the medieval jurist Bartolo de Sassoferrato tiranny ex parte exercitii e tiranny ex defectu tituli. Through his main political work, Du Droit des Magistrats (1574), Bèze also identifies the human resources to figth tyranny, the General States and the lesser magistrates the instance in charge of military and judicial functions, due to a secular contractualism, supported by precedents in the profane history from Classical Antiquity and Middle Age, as well as contemporarily to Bèze. Finally, it is intended to acknowledge the legacy of these authors in the Calvinist revolutions and in other authors related to those events: the Dutch revolt and Althusius; the English revolution and John Milton (even having broken with Calvinism, in his studies Milton considered Calvin, Knox and Bèze in terms of political theory); the North-American revolution and the political organization of the Constitution defended by Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay); and the introduction of this tradition in the Brazilian legal and political system by the Calvinist Rui Barbosa (not due to religious purposes but because of his liberal project manifested on his political writings, the Federal Decree 1 of 15th November 1889 and his role on the project of the Constitution of 24th February 1891). It is intended to point out, in the midst of this tradition, the ambiguity of the pastorate, which favors the political action of lesser magistrates over peoples political protagonism, submiting people to a guardianship relation, what definitely does not help to accept without further concerns the celebrated commonplace of Calvinisms contribution to the development of democracies in the West.

A presente pesquisa de doutorado tem por finalidade a análise do pensamento político dos principais reformadores que sucedem a Calvino, John Knox e Théodore de Bèze, os primeiros a romperem com a ambiguidade de Calvino quanto ao direito da lícita resistência política aos governos tirânicos, no ano de 1554, e que inauguram a tradição do constitucionalismo calvinista, ao privilegiarem o primeiro uma fundamentação bíblica quase exclusiva e o segundo um forte apelo para fontes seculares, ambos visando à identificação do fenômeno da tirania e a respectiva solução para o problema pela via da teoria constitucional das magistraturas inferiores. Em seus escritos dispersos, especialmente nos tratados publicados em 1558 em Genebra e posteriormente em sua História da Reforma Escocesa, na qual é narrada a primeira aplicação prática da teoria das magistraturas inferiores em um Estado-nação a protagonizar uma reforma e revolução calvinista, John Knox desenvolve sua teoria acerca do direito de resistência com estrita observância das Escrituras, em especial as narrativas do Antigo Testamento, das quais extrai uma legalidade bíblica, e compara suas exortações às dos antigos profetas bíblicos quanto ao dever de combater as tiranias com a ação dos magistrados civis apoiados pelo povo. Em Théodore de Bèze, o foco será a abordagem secularizada do fenômeno da tirania, sem prejuízo de uma compatibilidade com as Escrituras, remetendo à construção teórico-conceitual do fenômeno da tirania do jurista medieval Bartolo de Sassoferrato tirania ex parte exercitii e tirania ex defectu tituli e identificar na sua principal obra política Do Direito dos Magistrados (1574) os meios humanos de combate à tirania, os Estados Gerais e os magistrados inferiores, instâncias incumbidas das funções militares e judiciais, graças a um contratualismo secular, amparado em precedentes na história profana extraídos da Antiguidade Clássica, Idade Média e da época do próprio Bèze. Por fim, pretende-se identificar o legado desses autores nas revoluções calvinistas e em autores relacionados a tais eventos: a revolta nos Países Baixos e Althusius, a Revolução na Inglaterra e John Milton (ainda que rompesse com o calvinismo, em termos de teoria política, operou em suas obras com teses de Calvino, Knox e Bèze); a Revolução Norte-Americana e a organização política proposta pela Constituição do novo país defendida por Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison e John Jay) e a introdução no sistema jurídico-político brasileiro dessa tradição pelo calvinista Rui Barbosa (não por razões religiosas mas sim por seu projeto liberal, manifestado sobretudo em seus escritos políticos, no Decreto Federal nº 1 de 15 de Novembro de 1889 e em seu papel desempenhado no projeto da Constituição de 24 de Fevereiro de 1891). Objetiva-se apontar, no bojo dessa tradição, a ambiguidade do pastoreio, que privilegia a ação política efetiva pelos magistrados inferiores em detrimento do protagonismo político do povo, que seria posto numa situação de tutela, o que pouco contribui para que se aceite sem maiores receios o celebrado lugar-comum da contribuição do calvinismo para o desenvolvimento dos regimes democráticos no Ocidente. / This research aims to analyze the political thought of the leading reformers succeeding Calvin John Knox and Théodore de Bèze who are also the precursors of breaking up with Calvins ambiguity concerned to the lawful right of political resistance against tyrannical governments, in 1554. They started the tradition of the Calvinist constitucionalism by privileging, the first, an almost exclusively biblical foundation, and the second, a strong appeal to secular sources; both attempting to acknowledge the tyranny phenomenon and its solution by the constitutional doctrine of the lesser magistrate. In his writings, especially the treatises published in Geneva, in 1558, and the History of the Scottish Reformation, in which he approaches the first practical application of the doctrine of the lesser magistrate in a nation-state protagonist of a Calvinist reformation and revolution, John Knox develops his theory about the right of resistance under strict observance of the Scriptures mainly the narratives of the old Testament, of which he extracts a biblical legality comparing his own exhortations about the duty of fighting tyranny through the action of lesser civil magistrates supported by the people to the old prophets exhortations. In the other hand, Theodore de Bèze focuses the secularized approach to the tyranny phenomenon, considering the compatibility with the Scriptures, when referring to the theoretical and conceptual study of the tiranny phenomenon by the medieval jurist Bartolo de Sassoferrato tiranny ex parte exercitii e tiranny ex defectu tituli. Through his main political work, Du Droit des Magistrats (1574), Bèze also identifies the human resources to figth tyranny, the General States and the lesser magistrates the instance in charge of military and judicial functions, due to a secular contractualism, supported by precedents in the profane history from Classical Antiquity and Middle Age, as well as contemporarily to Bèze. Finally, it is intended to acknowledge the legacy of these authors in the Calvinist revolutions and in other authors related to those events: the Dutch revolt and Althusius; the English revolution and John Milton (even having broken with Calvinism, in his studies Milton considered Calvin, Knox and Bèze in terms of political theory); the North-American revolution and the political organization of the Constitution defended by Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay); and the introduction of this tradition in the Brazilian legal and political system by the Calvinist Rui Barbosa (not due to religious purposes but because of his liberal project manifested on his political writings, the Federal Decree 1 of 15th November 1889 and his role on the project of the Constitution of 24th February 1891). It is intended to point out, in the midst of this tradition, the ambiguity of the pastorate, which favors the political action of lesser magistrates over peoples political protagonism, submiting people to a guardianship relation, what definitely does not help to accept without further concerns the celebrated commonplace of Calvinisms contribution to the development of democracies in the West.

Thesis (D. Min.)--McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Ill., 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis explores the genesis of black choralism in late-nineteenth-century colonial South Africa, attending specifically to its dialectic with metropolitan Victorian choralism. In two introductory historiographic chapters I outline the political-narrative strategies by which both Victorian and black South African choralism have been elided from music histories. Part 1 gives an account of the "structures" within and through which choralism functioned as a practice of colonisation, as "internal colonialism" in Britain and evangelical colonialism in the eastern Cape Colony. In chapter 1 I suggest that the religious contexts within which choralism operated, including the music theoretical construction of the tonic sol-fa notation and method as "natural", and the "scientific" musicalisation of race, constituted conditions for the foreign mission's embrace of choralism. The second chapter explores further such affinities, tracing sol-fa choralism's institutional affiliations with nineteenth-century "reform" movements, and suggesting that sol-fa's practices worked in fulfilment of core reformist concerns such as "industry" and literacy. Throughout, the thesis explores how the categories of class and race functioned interchangeably in the colonial imagination. Chapter 3 charts this relationship in the terrain of music education; notations, for instance, which were classed in Britain, became racialised in colonial South Africa. In particular I show that black music education operated within colonial racial discourses. Chapter 4 is a reading of Victorian choralism as a "discipline", interpreting choral performance practice and choral music itself as disciplinary acts which complemented the political contexts in which choralism operated. Part 1, in short, explores how popular choralism operated within and as dominant politicking. In part 2 I turn to the black reception of Victorian choralism in composition and performance. The fifth chapter examines the compositional discourse of early black choral music, focussing on the work of John Knox Bokwe (1855-1922). Through a detailed account of several of Bokwe's works and their metropolitan sources, particularly late-nineteenth century gospel hymnody, I show that Bokwe's compositional practice enacted a politics that became anticolonial, and that early black choral music became "black" in its reception. I conclude that ethno/musicological claims that early black choral music contains "African" musical content conflate "race" and culture under a double imperative: in the names of a decolonising politics and a postcolonial epistemology in which hybridity as resistance is racialised. The final chapter explores how "the voice" was crucial to identity politics in the Victorian world, an object that was classed and racialised. Proceeding from the black reception of choral voice training, I attempt to outline the beginnings of a social history of the black choral voice, as well as analyse the sonic content of that voice through an approach I call a "phonetics of timbre".

Thesis (D. Min.)--Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-134).

The decades before the Scottish Reformation Parliament of 1560 witnessed the unprecedented use of a range of different media to disseminate the Protestant message and to shape beliefs and attitudes. By placing these works within their historical context, this thesis explores the ways in which various media – academic discourse, courtly entertainments, printed poetry, public performances, preaching and pedagogical tools – were employed by evangelical and Protestant reformers to persuade and/or educate different audiences within sixteenth-century Scottish society. The thematic approach examines not only how the reformist message was packaged, but how the movement itself and its persuasive agenda developed, revealing the ways in which it appealed to ever broader circles of Scottish society. In their efforts to bring about religious change, the reformers capitalised on a number of traditional media, while using different media to address different audiences. Hoping to initiate reform from within Church institutions, the reformers first addressed their appeals to the kingdom's educated elite. When their attempts at reasoned academic discourse met with resistance, they turned their attention to the monarch, James V, and the royal court. Reformers within the court utilised courtly entertainments intended to amuse the royal circle and to influence the young king to oversee the reformation of religion within his realm. When, following James's untimely death in 1542, the throne passed to his infant daughter, the reformers took advantage of the period of uncertainty that accompanied the minority. Through the relatively new technology of print, David Lindsay's poetry and English propaganda presented the reformist message to audiences beyond the kingdom's elite. Lindsay and other reformers also exploited the oral media of religious theatre in public spaces, while preaching was one of the most theologically significant, though under-researched, means of disseminating the reformist message. In addition to works intended to convert, the reformers also recognised the need for literature to edify the already converted. To this end, they produced pedagogical tools for use in individual and group devotions. Through the examination of these various media of persuasion, this study contributes to our understanding of the means by which reformed ideas were disseminated in Scotland, as well as the development of the reformist movement before 1560.