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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.
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.
Price: $168.00
Pages: 352
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: History of European Political and Constitutional Thought
Publication Date:
13 January 2022
ISBN: 9789004498532
Format: Hardcover
"Unlike many volumes of essays that emerge from conferences, this collection is notable not just for the sum of its distinguished parts, but also for the care with which the contributors illuminate different facets of the main theme – the continuously fraught but also continuously creative relationship between natural law and religious practice and discourse in the post-Reformation era." Tim Hochstrasser, in Grotiana, Volume 43 Issue 2 (Dec 2022).
"The title of the book does not refer to societies that exist or existed, but to certain theological-political theories which preoccupied theologians and political thinker in the early Reformation era.""
Thomas Mautner, in: Lychnos (Annual of the Swedish History of Science Society) (2022) pp. 329-331
"The title of the book does not refer to societies that exist or existed, but to certain theological-political theories which preoccupied theologians and political thinker in the early Reformation era.""
Thomas Mautner, in: Lychnos (Annual of the Swedish History of Science Society) (2022) pp. 329-331
Hans W. Blom, Ph.D. (1995), Utrecht University, taught history of political thought at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and publishes books and articles on Dutch political thought in the seventeenth century. He is editor-in-chief of Grotiana.