Conscience and Contract: A Study on Ideological Foundations of the English Republic

本研究旨在从宗教改革运动中产生的良心论和契约论两个方面分析17世纪中期英国共和国的思想基础。以往对英国共和主义的研究多以源于古希腊和罗马的世俗政治理论为基础。这项研究从历史和理论上表明，如果没有将个人自由和社会义务结合起来的基督教社区理想，英国共和国就无法建立和维持。

This research was aimed at analyzing ideological foundations of the English Republic in the mid-seventeenth century, in terms of the theories of both conscience and contract, which originated in the Reformation. A lot of previous approaches to English republicanism have relied upon secular political theories which have their roots in the ancient Greece and Rome. The research showed historically and theoretically that the English Republic could not be founded and sustained without the Christian ideal of community that united individual freedoms and social obligations.