Sacred polities, natural law and the law of nations in the 16th-17th centuries / / edited by Hans W. Blom.

"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 ne...

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Superior document:History of European political and constitutional thought ; 7
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:History of European political and constitutional thought ; 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (361 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.