ABSTRACT
Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf (1561–1610) was originally a Silesian and spent the majority of his working life teaching at Basel. We excerpt from Polanus’s Syntagma Theologiae (Hanau, 1609), which was informed by his lectures at the Basel Academy. Polanus adhered to most of the conventional Reformed positions on warfare, and saw the defence of true religion as the first just cause of war. But he was particularly determined to assert the justice of Reformed princes intervening in other jurisdictions in defence of true religion, for example, in defence of the Hungarians against the Turks.
