ABSTRACT

This article analyses two polemical works by the Fifth Monarchist John Rogers to argue that Interregnum Millenarian Scriptural hermeneutics cogently draws on Scholastic as well as Reformed authorities. This article traces how in the years of 1652–3, during which England transitions from the rule of the Rump Parliament to the Nominated Assembly, Rogers adapts the questions on voluntary action and human law from Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiæ to extend his defence of Congregationalism to an argument for rule by the Saints. Fifth Monarchists, by labelling all laws and forms of government that were not strictly Biblical as anti-Christian, claim to bypass the problem of how to reconcile human custom with Scriptural law. Ironically, Rogers’s argument for the applicability of Deuteronomic law to all nations and at all times draws on Thomistic Aristotelianism to develops its hermeneutical strategies.

摘要

本文分析了第五位君主约翰·罗杰斯 (John Rogers) 的两部论战著作，以论证Interregnum Millenarian 圣经诠释学有力地借鉴了经院和改革宗的权威。本文追溯了 1652-3 年间，在英格兰从 Rump 议会统治过渡到提名议会统治期间，罗杰斯如何改编托马斯·阿奎那的《神学概要》中关于自愿行动和人类法的问题将他对公理制的辩护延伸到对圣徒统治的论证。第五君主主义者通过将所有不严格符合圣经的法律和政府形式标记为反基督教，声称绕过了如何使人类习惯与圣经法律相协调的问题。具有讽刺意味的是，罗杰斯关于申命记法适用于所有国家的论点，在任何时候都借鉴了托马斯主义的亚里士多德主义来发展其解释学策略。