[History of Political Thought] Vol. 36, No. 2 (2015) published

History of Political Thought

ISSN 0143-781X

Publisher: Imprint Academic

Volume 36, Number 2, 2015

MEDEA'S WOUNDS: EURIPIDES ON JUSTICE AND COMPASSION
pp. 209-233(25)
Author: Sezer, D.

RIGHTS, MORAL THEOLOGY AND POLITICS IN JEAN GERSON
pp. 234-261(28)
Author: Pappin, G.

THE BEST POSSIBLE USE OF CHRISTIANITY: THE RHETORICAL STANCE OF MACHIAVELLI'S CHRISTIAN PASSAGES
pp. 262-280(19)
Author: Murry, Gregory

THOMAS HOBBES'S CHANGING ACCOUNT OF LIBERTY AND CHALLENGE TO REPUBLICANISM
pp. 281-309(29)
Author: Douglass, R.

ARMS OF THE REPUBLIC: REPUBLICANISM AND MILITIA REFORMS DURING THE US CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AND THE FIRST FEDERAL CONGRESS 1787-91
pp. 310-330(21)
Authors: Bashir, H.; Gray, P.W.

THE REVOLUTION OF 1848 IN THE HISTORY OF FRENCH REPUBLICANISM
pp. 331-353(23)
Author: Hayat, S.

RELIGION IS THE OPIUM OF THE PEOPLE: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT OF MARX'S CRITIQUE OF RELIGION
pp. 354-387(34)
Author: Pedersen, E.O.

John Witte, Jr., [The Reformation of Rights] (2008): Korean translation published

One of the most outstanding works in Reformation and law, The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Cambridge University Press, 2008), written by John Witte, Jr. (Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University Law School, Atlanta), has been translated into Korean.

• 존 위티 주니어, [권리와 자유의 역사: 칼뱅에서 애덤스까지 인권과 종교 자유를 향한 진보], 정두메 옮김, 서울: 한국기독학생회출판부, 2015

 

[Discours sur la théologie naturelle des Chinois] of G. W. Leibniz

I participated in a round table on "Orient-Occident: les images du monde," organized by Nantes IAS, June 25, 2015, 6:00-7:30 PM.

The title of my talk was "La métaphysique européenne rencontre la philosophie de l’Extrême-Orient : une lecture de la Novissima Sinica de Leibniz."
But it was also based on a reading of Discours sur la théologie naturelle des Chinois (1716).


[References]

Novissima Sinica historiam nostri temporis illustratura, in quibus de Christianismo publica nunc primum autoritate propagato missa in Europam relatio exhibetur, deque favore scientiarum Europaearum ac moribus gentis & ipsius praesertim Monarchae, tum & de bello Sinensium cum Moscis ac pace constituta, multa hactenus ignota explicantur ... indicem dabit pagina versa, [S.l.], 1697; ... edente G. G. L. [Leibnitio]... 2a editio..., [S.l.]: [s.n.], 1699, 375 p., portrait, in-8

·        English translation: The Preface to Leibniz’ Novissima Sinica: Commentary, Translation, Text, [by] Donald F. Lach, University of Hawaii Press, 1957; …, Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI, 1998, x-104 p., ports., 22 cm

·        German translation: Novissima Sinica (1697): Das Neueste von China, mit ergänzenden Dokumenten hrsg., übers. und erl. von Heinz-Günther Nesselrath und Hermann Reinbothe, Köln: Deutsche China-Gesellschaft, 1979; …, Nachdr. der Ausg. 1979, mit einem Vorw., aktualisiertem Literaturverz. und Reg. von Gregor Paul und Adolf Grünert, München: Iudicium, 2011, 1 vol. (xv-180 p.), 25 cm

·        Chinese translation: 萊布尼茲 著, 梅謙拉(Thierry Meynard)及楊保筠 譯, [中國近事: 為了照亮我們這個時代的歷史], 鄭州: 大象出版社, 2005

Discours sur la théologie naturelle des Chinois: plus quelques écrits sur la question religieuse de Chine, présentés, trad. et annot. par Christiane Frémont, Paris: l’Herne, 1987, 214 p., 22 cm; …, hrsg. und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Wenchao Li und Hans Poser, Frankfurt am Main: V. Klostermann, 2002, 308 p., fac-sim., 30 cm

·        English translation: Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese, translated, with an introduction, notes, and commentaries by Daniel J. Cook and Henry Rosemont, Jr., Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1977; Revised edition: Writings on China, …, Chicago: Open Court, 1994, xvi-157 p., ill., map, 24 cm
 

Theology and Law in Medieval Europe - Related Articles in the Journal of Religious History (December 2013)

Journal of Religious History

© Religious History Association

Special Issue

December 2013

Volume 37, Issue 4

 

1. Law, Theology, and Praxis ca. 1140-1380: New Approaches to the Study of Law and Theology in Medieval Europe - Constant J. Mews
   
   
2. Theology, Practice, and Policy at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century: the Papacy and Peter Lombard (pages 441–456) - Clare Monagle
   
   
3. The Reception of Gratian's Tractatus de penitentia and the Relationship between Canon Law and Theology in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century (pages 457–473) - Atria A. Larson
   
   
4. Law, Theology, and Morality: Conceptions of the Rights to Relief of the Poor in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (pages 474–493) - Jason Taliadoros
   
   
5. Attendant to a Higher Judge: Competing Paradigms of Legal Practice in the Thought of Alexander Neckam (1157–1217) (pages 494–509) - Tomas Zahora
   
   
6. Making Practicality a Virtue: Morality, Law, and Fortitude in Giovanni da Legnano's De Bello (pages 510–527) - Jasonne M. Grabher
    

Conference at Nantes, France, January 20-21, 2016

I'm very pleased to announce that the Conference, "Theological Foundations of Modern Constitutional Theory: 16th-17th Centuries," will be held at Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, France, January 20-21, 2016.

 

List of confirmed participants and topics

(in alphabetical order of last name):

1. Thomas Ahnert (University of Edinburgh) - "Christian Thomasius (1655-1728)"
2. Andre Santos Campos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - "The Social Contract Tradition(s): Agreements and Reconstructions"
3. Cristina Ciucu (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) - "Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) sur la réforme religieuse et sociale"
4. Hugues Daussy (Université de Franche-Comté) - "Les "lois et constitutions du royaume" dans la pensée politique huguenote"
5. Marta García-Alonso (Universidad nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid) - "Pierre Bayle: la souveraineté, condition de la tolérance"
6. Cécile Huchard (Université de Lorraine) - "Théorie constitutionnelle dégagée des pamphlets protestants français des Guerres de religion"
7. Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) - "Anti-Theological Foundations of Modern Constitutional Theory: The Dutch Revolt and the Dutch Republican Tradition in European Context (1572-1688)"
8. John Christian Laursen (University of California at Riverside) - "Erasmus and Arguments for Toleration from Christian Cynicism"
9. Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford) - "Hugo Grotius: Christianity, Liberty and the Commonwealth"
10. Thomas Poole (London School of Economics and Political Science) - "Theology and Constitutional Theory in Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington"
11. Mario Turchetti (Université de Fribourg) - ""Bon prince et mauvais prince" dans l'Institutio principis Christiani (1516) d'Érasme (1469-1536)"
12. John Witte, Jr. (Emory University Law School, Atlanta - chapter contributor) - "Prophets, Priests, and Kings: John Milton and the Reformation of Rights and Liberties in England" (or, "A New Magna Carta for the Early Common Law: An 800th Anniversary Essay")
13. Ki-Won Hong (Seoul National University) - "Theological Foundations of G. W. Leibniz's Conception of Universal Republic"