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The Secularisation of the Confessional State - The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius (Hardcover)
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The Secularisation of the Confessional State - The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius (Hardcover)
Series: Ideas in Context
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Christian Thomasius (1655 1728) was a tireless campaigner against
the political enforcement of religion in the early modern
confessional state. In a whole series of combative disputations -
against heresy and witchraft prosecutions, and in favour of
religious toleration - Thomasius battled to lay the intellectual
groundwork for the separation of church and state and the juridical
basis for pluralistic societies. In this first book-length study in
English of Thomasius' political thought, Ian Hunter departs from
the usual view of Thomasius as a natural law moral philosopher. In
addition to investigating his anti-scholastic cultural politics,
Hunter discusses Thomasius' work in public and church law,
particularly his disputations arguing for the toleration of
heretics, providing a revealing comparison with Locke's arguments
on the same topic. If Locke sought to base toleration in the
subjective rights protecting Christian citizens against an
intolerant state, Thomasius grounded it in the state's duty to
impose toleration as an obligation on intolerant citizens.
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