Grotius's "The Truth of the Christian Religion" was first published
in Leiden in 1627 in Latin. Written in a plain and direct language
for his countrymen, this short work aimed to show those who would
encounter pagans, Muslims, and Jews that the Christian religion was
the true revealed religion. In addition to "fortifying" the beliefs
of his fellow Christians, the treatise intended to convince
non-Christians of "the reasonableness of believing and embracing
the Christian Religion above any other."
Editor Maria Rosa Antognazza suggests that "Grotius claimed the
superiority of Christian doctrine and morality and their perfect
conformity with the teaching of the most enlightened reason, and at
the same time he advocated tolerance for all positive religions. .
. . Grotius rejected the use of any kind of violence, proclaiming
that 'the weapons appointed for the soldiers of Christ are . . .
proper to the Spirit.'. . . Moreover, in an era of bloody and
violent confrontations amongst the different Christian confessions,
Grotius raised a forceful appeal 'to mutual agreement.' All
Christians should remember that they 'were baptized into the same
Name, ' that of Jesus Christ, and that 'therefore there ought to be
no Sects or Divisions amongst them.' "
Hugo Grotius is one of the most important thinkers in the
early-modern period. A great humanistic polymath--lawyer and legal
theorist, diplomat and political philosopher, ecumenical activist
and theologian--his work was seminal for modern natural law and
influenced the moral, political, legal, and theological thought of
the Enlightenment, from Hobbes, Pufendorf, and Locke to Rousseau
and Kant, as well as America's Founding leaders. Jean Le Clerc
(1657-1736), a Genevan by birth, was a philosophical and
theological scholar and, through his editorship of leading
journals, a key figure in the republic of letters.Maria Rosa
Antognazza is a Lecturer in the Department of Theology and
Religious Studies, King's College London.John Clarke (bap. 1687, d.
1734) was a schoolmaster at Hull, an educational reformer, and a
translator.Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History and
Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University
of Sussex, England.
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