Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany

Privacy Studies Podcast

English - May 30, 2020 13:11 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MB
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Paolo Astorri, winner of the RefoRC Book Award 2020 for his book Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany, talks about the influence of theological ideas in the development of contract theory in 16th century Germany. In this interview, we cover how ideas by Reformers Martin Luther and Philip Melanchton were expanded, developed, and sometimes even distorted by theologians and jurists that came in their wake.