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Author: Guillaume Henri Marie Posthumus Meyjes
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004100008
Size: 52.31 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Book Description: This volume contains thirteen studies on various aspects of Hugo Grotius' theological work, originally lectures held at a conference in June 1992 in honour of professor Guillaume H.M. Posthumus Meyjes, the editor of Grotius' "Meletius."

Author: Jeremy Seth Geddert
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315525801
Size: 47.44 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Book Description: Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue. Yet critics often argue that this secular focus on merely avoiding violations can also enable unfettered individualism and undermine appeals to the common good. This book uncovers in secular rights pioneer Hugo Grotius a rights theory that points toward the enlargement of individual responsibility. It grounds this connection in Grotius’ unexplored theological corpus, which reveals a dual metaethics and jurisprudence. Here a deontological natural law undergirds a secular theory of rights that is self-aware of its own limitations. A teleological practical reason then guides the exercise of these rights, so as not to compromise the political order that defends them. The book then illustrates this symbiosis of rights and responsibilities in five areas: consent theories of government, rights of rebellion, criminal punishment, war and international responsibility, and Atonement theology. This reassesses Grotius’ legacy as a secularist opponent of classical political thought, and suggests that modern liberalism and universal human rights are compatible with a world of resurgent religion.

Author: Christoph A. Stumpf
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110886162
Size: 32.34 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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Book Description: In this book Christoph Stumpf investigates theological influences upon the legal theory of Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), who is regarded by many as the "father of modern international law". The author analyses how Grotius has contributed to the transformation and further development of international law from its roots in Christian theology to a trans-religious law of nations. From the theological substance in Grotius' views on international relations the author concludes that Grotius' legal theory can be perceived as a theological system of international law.

Author: Marco Barducci
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198754582
Size: 44.53 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Book Description: Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718 is a reconstruction of the way Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Engaging with the reception of all of Grotius's key works and a wide range of topics, the volume has much to say about the search for peace in an age of religious conflict and about the cultural roots of the Enlightenment. Most of all, Marco Barducci aims to deepen our understanding of the connections that made English political thought part of the history of European thought. To this end, it brings together a succinct account of Grotius's own thinking on key topics, mapping these accounts within English debates, to show why his ideas were seen to be relevant at key moments; shows awareness of the possibilities for the misappropriation inherent in reception; and adds something new to our understanding of why seventeenth-century Englishmen argued in the ways that they did.

Author: Hugo Grotius
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004103856
Size: 55.28 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 714
View: 1968

Book Description: First critical edition and first English translation with introduction and commentary of this early work by Hugo Grotius on church politics (original edition 1613). Several appendixes contain additional material on the book's background and reception.

Author: Stephen R. C. Nichols
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621898342
Size: 27.70 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Book Description: New England colonial pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) was well aware of the threat that Deist philosophy posed to the unity of the Bible as Christian Scriptures, yet remarkably, his own theology of the Bible has never before been examined. In the context of his entire corpus this study pays particular attention to the detailed notes Edwards left for "The Harmony of the Old and New Testament," a "great work" hitherto largely ignored by scholars. Following examination of his "Harmony" notes, a case study of salvation in the Old Testament challenges the current "dispositional" account of Edwards's soteriology and argues instead that the colonial Reformed theologian held there to be one object of saving faith in Old and New Testaments, namely, Christ.

Author: Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110291924
Size: 12.53 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Book Description: This book rewrites the history of Christian peace ethics. Christian reflection on reducing violence or overcoming war has roots extending back to ancient Roman philosophy, and it eventually decisively influenced the formation of modern international law. This study traces the development of the tradition from Cicero, Augustine and Thomas Aquinas to early modern thinkers including Vitoria, Suarez, Martin Luther, Hugo Grotius and Immanuel Kant. These sources influenced modern peace ethics’ cosmopolitanism and international law-based approach, as can be found in the late Pope John Paul II’s peace teaching.

Author: Ben Pugh
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630874205
Size: 48.13 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Book Description: With the subject of the atonement of Christ attracting such a lot of polemical work at this time, it is easy to conclude that the current debate is generating more heat than light. Atonement Theories presents the beginning student, pastor, or researcher with an accessible and fair treatment of every school of thought on this subject. Atonement Theories significantly updates previous histories of the doctrine, providing analysis of some fascinating and highly significant recent developments. It also intriguingly highlights at various points where aspects of this central message of Christianity might find a connection within contemporary culture. This book will empower the reader to quickly gain a working knowledge of current debates and the history behind them.

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Size: 42.88 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Hugo de Groot
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004083561
Size: 57.92 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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