Dr Simon Kennedy
Dr

Simon Kennedy

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Background

Simon is an intellectual historian specialising in the history of legal, political and religious ideas. He is currently working on a number of projects: the political uses of the fifth commandment ("Honour your father and mother") in the early modern period, resistance theory in the Reformed Protestant tradition, and the idea of constituent power in the early modern period. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest in early 2023, and is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Danube Institute, also in Budapest. His first book was published with Edinburgh University Press in 2022, and is entitled Reforming the Law of Nature: The secularisation of political thought, 1532-1689. His second book is on education, entitled Against Worldview, and published with Lexham Press.

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Fields of research

Christian studies Historical studies History and philosophy of specific fields History, Heritage and Archaeology Law and Legal Studies Law and humanities Law and religion Law in context Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation Philosophy and Religious Studies Religious studies

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Early modern and modern history

  • History and constitutional interpretation

  • Reformed Protestantism

  • History of political thought

  • History of legal thought

  • Legal history

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21 works between 2013 and 2025
All (21) Journal Article (17) Book Chapter (1) Book (2) Other Outputs (1)

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2013

Journal Article

Abraham Kuyper and his political thought: Calvinist and pluralist

Kennedy, Simon P. (2013). Abraham Kuyper and his political thought: Calvinist and pluralist. Reformed Theological Review, 72 (2), 73-85.

Abraham Kuyper and his political thought: Calvinist and pluralist

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Hume's Constitutionalism: History and Human Nature in the Constitutional Thought of David Hume

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor James Allan

Completed supervision

Enquiries

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  • Christianity and politics
  • church and state
  • political ideas
  • politics and religion
  • western civilisation

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