Essays on Church, State, and Politics - Couverture souple

Thomasius, Christian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0865974993 ISBN 13 : 9780865974999

Editeur : Liberty Fund Inc, 2007

Synopsis

The essays selected here for translation derive largely from Thomasius's work on "Staatskirchenrecht, " or the political jurisprudence of church law. These works, originating 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. In mandating limited religious toleration within the German states, the provisions of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) also provided the rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia with a way of keeping the powerful Lutheran church in check by guaranteeing a degree of religious freedom to non-Lutherans and thereby detaching the state from the most powerful territorial church. Thomasius's writings on church-state relations, many of them critical of the civil claims made by Lutheran theologians, are a direct response to this state of affairs. At the same time, owing to the depth of intellectual resources at his disposal, these works constitute a major contribution to the broader discussion of the relation between the religious and political spheres.Christian Thomasius (1655-1728) was a German philosopher and legal theorist. He was a cofounder of the University of Halle, where he was also a professor.Ian Hunter is Australian Professorial Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland.Frank Grunert is a member of the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Giessen.Thomas Ahnert is a Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh.Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Liberty Fund Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0865974993
• ISBN 13: 9780865974999
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306