Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries (History of European Political and Constitutional Thought)

Blom, Hans W. (EDT)

Brill（2022/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 352 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004498532

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Often considered a secularizing force in the rise of the nation state, natural law was also invoked in defence of confessional states. The fourteen chapters in this volume show how religious and secularizing approaches to natural and biblical law interacted and combined as early modern states navigated the fallout from the Reformation. From this new perspective, the volume revisits questions of political legitimacy, civic and ecclesiastical authority, societal stability, conceptions of the common good, liberalism's value pluralism (and its pretence), toleration and the lingering humanist project of determining "who are we" - issues that were as important then as they are now.

Contributors are: Dominique Bauer, Thomas Behme, Hans Blom, Jiří Chotaš, Alberto Clerici, Stefanie Ertz, Arthur Eyffinger, Heikki Haara, Mads Langballe Jensen, Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Denis Ramelet, József Simon, and Markus M. Totzeck.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

  Hans W. Blom

part 1

Humanist Inroads into Natural Law

2 Natural Law and National Polity The Leiden Discourse on State and Church (1575-1625)

  Arthur Eyffinger

3 'Without prophetic and apostolic voices' Niels Hemmingsen's On the law of Nature According to a Demonstrative Method

  Mads Langballe Jensen

4 Between Scripture and Stoicism The Duty of Intervention in the Calvinist Monarchomachs

  Alberto Clerici

5 Separating the Universal and Natural from the Particular in the Mosaic Legislation The Humanist and Calvinist Context of Franciscus Junius's De politiae Mosis observatione (1593)

  Markus M. Totzeck

6 Challenges of Universalism Theologico-Philosophical Considerations of Natural Law by Transylvanian Antitrinitarians in the Late Sixteenth Century (Jacobus Palaeologus and Christian Francken)

  József Simon

7 Natural Law, Contingency and History in the Legal Thought of Francisco Suárez

  Dominique Bauer

part 2

Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf

8 Grotius on Natural Law

  Arthur Eyffinger

9 Erastianism and Natural Law in Hugo Grotius's De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra

  Stefanie Ertz

10 Grotius on the Foundation of Natural Law

  Jiří Chotaš

11 Pufendorf's Lutheranism

  Thomas Behme

12 Pufendorf Coercion, Religious Beliefs and Toleration

  Heikki Haara

13 Moral Entities, Divine Will and Natural Law According to Pufendorf

  Denis Ramelet

14 Providence and Uses of Grotian Strategies in Neapolitan Political Thought, 1650-1750

  Adriana Luna-Fabritius

Index