The Secularisation of the Confessional State : The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius

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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 this study of Thomasius' political thought, Ian Hunter discusses Thomasius's work in public and church law, providing a revealing comparison with the arguments of John Locke.