Conference at Nantes, January 20-21, 2016

Theological Foundations of Modern Constitutional Theory : 16th-17th Centuries

Fondements théologiques de la théorie constitutionnelle moderne : XVIe-XVIIe siècles

Résumé

This conference aims to assemble different studies laying bridges between modern constitutional theories and theology from the perspective of intellectual history. Though modernity of law and politics has been usually accounted in the context of Reformation, the papergivers’ approaches to the question will not be restricted in any confessional perspective, Protestant or Catholic. For, whatever the word ‘theology’ may have connoted in the time of religious confrontations, theoretical attempts to legitimize human rights and political authority at those days can be regarded as part of the general current of philosophical investigations, in a new manner and with different foci than ever, into the concept of justice with reference to that of God.

Programme

January 20, 2016, Wednesday

09:00-10:00 Registration and Opening

Welcoming and Opening Speech , Samuel Jubé (Directeur de l’IEA de Nantes)

10:00-12:30 Chair: Pierre Maréchaux (Professeur, Université de Nantes)

• « Bon prince et mauvais prince » dans l’Institutio principis Christiani (1516) d’Érasme (1469-1536) , Mario Turchetti (Université de Fribourg)
• Erasmus and Arguments for Toleration from Christian Cynicism , John Christian Laursen (University of California at Riverside)

14:00-16:30 Chair: Yann Lignereux (Directeur, UFR Histoire, Université de Nantes)

• Hugo Grotius : Christianity, Liberty and the Commonwealth , Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford)
• Anti-Theological Foundations of Modern Constitutional Theory: The Dutch Revolt and the Dutch Republican Tradition in European Context (1572-1688) , Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

January 21, 2016, Thursday

10:00-12:30 Chair: Pierre Musso (Membre associé de l’IEA de Nantes, Rennes 2)

• Liberté de conscience, tolérance politique et souveraineté : les fondements anti-ecclésiologiques de la théologie politique de Pierre Bayle - Marta Garcia Alonso (Universidad nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid)
• Theological Foundations of G. W. Leibniz’s Conception of Universal Republic , Ki-Won Hong (Seoul National University)

14:00-16:30

• Theology and Constitutional Theory in Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington , Thomas Poole (London School of Economics and Political Science)
• The Social Contract Tradition(s): Agreements and Reconstructions , André Santos Campos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Closing Remarks

* Order of speeches in the program can be modified on technical reasons, if judged necessary.

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