Resumen de Die Verfassung des Staates als Verfassung der Kirche: Richard Hooker und Hugo Grotius als Vorläufer des deutschen Territorialismus
This treatise identifies the Anglican theologian richard Hooker and the Dutch lawyer Hugo Grotius as predecessors of the German territorialis tradition of defining the relationship between Church and state. The author argues that Hooker as well as Grotius conceived of a uniform legal framework, consisting of natural law, divine law, and human law, which covered both spiritual and temporal matters. From this uniform legal framework, both Hooker and Grotius derived a uniform authority of the state over spiritual and temporal matters.This conjunction of authority over spiritual and temporal matters is reasoned for by both Hooker and Grotius with a primarily theological line of argumentation.
