Essays on Church, State, and Politics
By Christian Thomasius
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Publication Date: May 2007
About this book
Church, state, and politics.
The works found in Essays on Church, State, and Politics, which originated as disputations, theses, and pamphlets, were direct interventions in the unresolved issue of the political role of religion in Brandenburg-Prussia, a state in which a Calvinist dynasty ruled over a largely Lutheran population and nobility as well as a significant Catholic minority.
Hardcover | 336 pages | 6×9 | Published May 2007 | ISBN 978-0-86597-498-2
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ix
Introduction
xxii
A Note on the Terms and the Translations
xxv
Acknowledgements
xxvii
Essays on Church, State, and Politics
1
On the History of Natural Law Until Grotius
49
The Right of Protestant Princes Regarding Indifferent Matters or Adiaphora
128
On the Power of Secular Government to Command Its Subjects to Attend Church Diligently
148
Is Heresy a Punishable Crime?
207
On the Crime of Sorcery
231
On the Right of a Christian Prince in Religious Matters
279
Works Cited by Thomasisus
287
Acknowledgements
About the Author and Editor
Christian Thomasius (1655–1728) was a German philosopher and legal theorist.
Ian Hunter is Australian Professorial Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia.
Thomas Ahnert is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh.
Frank Grunert is Scientific Collaborator at the Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich.