Contents

Acknowledgements vιι Notes on Contributors vιιι

1 Introduction 1

Hans W. Blom

PART 1

Humanist Inroads into Natural Law

2 Natural Law and National Polity

The Leiden Discourse on State and Church (1575-1625) 29 Arthur Eyffinger

3 �Without Prophetic and Apostolic Voices'

Niels Hemmingsen’s On the law of Nature According to a Demonstrative Method 56

Mads LangballeJensen

4 Between Scripture and Stoicism

The Duty of Intervention in the Calvinist Monarchomachs 77

Alberto Clerici

5 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) 102

Markus M.

6 Challenges of Universalism

Theologico-Philosophical Considerations of Natural Law by Transylvanian Antitrinitarians in the Late Sixteenth Century (Jacobus Palaeologus and Christian Francken) 136

JozsefSimon

7 Natural Law, Contingency and History in the Legal Thought of Francisco Suarez 154

Dominique Bauer

PART 2

Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf

8 Grotius on Natural Law: An Inventory of Propositions 173

Arthur Eyffinger

9 Erastianism and Natural Law in Hugo Grotius's De Imperio Summarum Potestatum Circa Sacra 200

Stefanie Ertz

10 Grotius on the Foundation of Natural Law 223

Jirl Chotas

11 Pufendorf's Lutheranism 242

Thomas Behme

12 Pufendorf: Coercion, Religious Beliefs and Toleration 267

Heikki Haara

13 Moral Entities, Divine Will and Natural Law According to Pufendorf 288

Denis Ramelet

14 Providence and Uses of Grotian Strategies in Neapolitan Political Thought, 1650-1750 314

Adriana Luna-Fabritius

Index 343