The Secularisation of the Confessional State

The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius

By:

Ian Hunter

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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 witchcraft 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 text, 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.

Author Biography:

Ian Hunter is Australia Professorial Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland.

Release date Australia

December 20th, 2007

Author

Ian Hunter

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

234

Series

Ideas in Context

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780521880558

Product ID

2045994

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