《神圣政体和世俗政体》囊括了所有著名的经典原著，但与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度，以便能够纳入范围广泛、不那么出名的作品。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概、进一步阅读指南，以及必要的词汇表和原文注解。

Lawson's Politica is a systematic treatise onpolitics in Church and State, and isarguably the most significant work ofpolitical theory to have been printedduring the Restoration crisis of 1659 - 60.The work was widely discussed during theseventeenth century and its conceptualvocabulary applied in discussions of therevolution of 1688 - 9, when it was alsoposthumously republished. Despite Lawson'sfame, however, his work fell into relativeobscurity during the eighteenth centurybut has recently been the subject of renewedscholarly interest. Politica has been reassessedas both historically and theoreticallysignificant, and Lawson's contextual andinterpretative importance emphasized, as awriter who enriches our understanding ofHobbes and Locke.This new modem edition is the first to bebased on, and to correct, the rare and badlyprinted edition of 1660 and the partiallycorrected edition of 1689. Containing afull scholarly apparatus, it is designed tomake this significant work accessible tostudents as well as specialists throughsubstantial introduction and notes,contextual material and bibliographicalguide.
CONAL CONI)REN is Professor of PoliticalScience in the University of New SouthWales. His books include Status andAppraisal of Classic Texts (1985) and GeorgeLawson' s Politica and the English Revolution 1989).

Preface
Editor’s introduction
A note on the text
Bibliographical guide
Biographical notes
Principal dates
Politica Sacra et Civilis
Epistle to the reader
Dedicatory poem
The arguments of the several chapters
1 Of government in general,and the original thereof
2 Of government in general,and of a community civil
3 Of aneccoesiastical community
4 Of a commonwealth ingeneral,and power civil
5 OF the manner how civil power is acquired
6 Of power ecclesiastical
7 Of the manner of acquiring ecclesiastical power
8 Of the disposition of power civil,and the several forms of government
9 Of the disposition of ecclesiastical power:and first,whether it be due unto the bishop of Rome
10 Whether the civil state have any tood title to the power of the Keys
11 Whether episcopacy be the primary subject of the Power of the Keys
12 Whether episcopacy or presbyters be the Primary subject of the Power of the Keys
13 That the government of the church is not purely democratical,but like that of a free state,wherein the power is in the whole ,not in any part ,which is the author s judgement
14 Of the extent of a particular church
15 Of subjection in general,and the subjects of a civil state
16 Of subjects in an ecclesiastical polity
Index
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