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Of the Nature & Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society (Hardcover)
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Samuel Pufendorf's "Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion"
(published in Latin in 1687) is a major work on the separation of
politics and religion. Written in response to the revocation of the
Edict of Nantes by the French king Louis XIV, Pufendorf contests
the right of the sovereign to control the religion of his subjects,
because state and religion pursue wholly different ends. He
concludes that, when rulers transgress their bounds, subjects have
a right to defend their religion, even by the force of
arms.Pufendorf's opposition to the French king does not demonstrate
political radicalism. Instead, like John Locke and others who
defended the concept of toleration, Pufendorf advocates a
principled, moderate defense of toleration rather than unlimited
religious liberty.Appearing at the dawn of the Enlightenment,
Pufendorf's ideas on natural law and toleration were highly
influential in both Europe and the British Isles. As Simone
Zurbuchen explains in the introduction, "Of the Nature and
Qualification of Religion" is a major contribution to the history
and literature of religious toleration.Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694)
was one of the most important figures in early-modern political
thought. An exact contemporary of Locke and Spinoza, he transformed
the natural law theories of Grotius and Hobbes, developed striking
ideas of toleration and of the relationship between church and
state, and wrote extensive political histories and analyses of the
constitution of the German empire.Jodocus Crull (d. 1713/14) was a
German emigre to England, a medical man, and a translator and
writer.Simone Zurbuchen is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Fribourg, Switzerland.Knud Haakonssen is Professor of
Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England.
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