Essays on Church, State, and Politics

  Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics ISBN: 9780865974982 Pages: 336 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 which a Calvinist dynasty ruled over a largely Lutheran population and nobility as a significant Catholic minority. Christian Thomas's (1655-1728) was a German philosopher and legal theorist. Ian Hunter is Australian Professional Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourse, University of Queensland, Australia. Thomas Ahnert is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh. Frank Grunert is Scientific Collaborator at the Institute fur Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich.