Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries (History of European Political and Constitutional Thought, 7)

A fresh look at the importance of natural and international law in the religious politics at the heartlands of the Reformation, from the Low Countries, the German principalities up to Transylvania; from Niels Hemmingsen to Gian Battista Vico; from religious reasons for the universalist claims of natural law to political arguments for the sacred polity, their tension and creative potential. Introduction / Hans W. Blom -- Natural law and national polity. The Leiden discourse on state and church (1575-1625) / Arthur Eyffinger -- 'Without prophetic and apostolic voices'. Niels Hemmingsen's on the law of nature according to a demonstrative method / Mads Langballe Jensen -- Between scripture and stoicism. The Duty of intervention in the Calvinist Monarchomachs / Alberto Clerici -- 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 -- Challenges of universalism theologico-philosophical considerations of natural law by Transylvanian. Antitrinitarians in the late sixteenth century (Jacobus Palaeologus and Christian Francken) / József Simon -- Natural law, contingency and history in the legal thought of Francisco Suárez / Dominique Bauer -- Grotius on natural law / Arthur Eyffinger -- Erastianism and natural law in Hugo Grotius's De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra / Stefanie Ertz -- Grotius on the foundation of natural law / Jiří Chotaš -- Pufendorf 's Lutheranism / Thomas Behme -- Pufendorf coercion, religious beliefs and toleration / Heikki Haara -- Moral entities, divine will and natural law according to Pufendorf / Denis Ramelet -- Providence and uses of Grotian strategies in Neapolitan political thought, 1650-1750 / Adriana Luna- Fabritius "Often considered a secularizing force in the rise of the nation state, natural law was called upon in the defence of the early-modern confessional states. The fourteen chapters of this volume show how religious and legal thought around natural and biblical law interacted and combined in the new Christian states of Lutheranism, Calvinism and Catholicism. The volume addresses also questions of political legitimacy, civic and ecclesiastical authority, societal stability, conceptions of common good, liberalism's value pluralism (and its pretence), toleration and the lingering humanist project of determining "who are we", issues that were then important 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"-- Provided by publisher 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 "Often considered a secularizing force in the rise of the nation state, natural law was called upon in the defence of the early-modern confessional states. The fourteen chapters of this volume show how religious and legal thought around natural and biblical law interacted and combined in the new Christian states of Lutheranism, Calvinism and Catholicism. The volume addresses also questions of political legitimacy, civic and ecclesiastical authority, societal stability, conceptions of common good, liberalism's value pluralism (and its pretence), toleration and the lingering humanist project of determining "who are we", issues that were then important as they are now"-- Provided by the publisher