Christian Thomasius, el Estado de derecho y la separación entre Iglesia y Estado

John Christian Laursen

doi:10.3989/hs.2018.010

Authors

John Christian Laursen University of California https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0028-4149

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/hs.2018.010

Keywords:

Christian Thomasius, Rule of law, Separation of Church and State, Modernity

Abstract

Christian Thomasius was above all a professor of jurisprudence who used his legal skills to resolve all sorts of legal, political, and moral problems. In this article we review two of his writings that contributed to his rearticulation of the relations between religion and politics in early modernity. He used the elements of what later became the concept of the rule of law to defend Denis Veiras, author of the Histoire des Sevarambes, against charges of atheism. He also defended the skeptical jurisprudence of Georg Heber as the best instrument for separating church and state and assigning each their proper roles, and made use of theological skepticism to justify excluding the theologians from politics and limit the interventions of princes into religious matters except in cases where the peace of the state was endangered.

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