The paper follows up on certain
suggestions in my previous Kolloquium paper concerning the significance of
Pufendorfian-Thomasian natural law in the first decades of the eighteenth
century in Denmark, particularly in the controversy surrounding Andreas Hojer's Diagramma de Nuptiis Propinquorum Iure divino non
prohibitis. It looks at the meta-arguments,
so to speak, in Hojer's and the theologians' letters to King Frederik IV, which
turned on the question on who had the authority to judge on matters pertaining
to natural law, and how far the liberty to discuss social and political issues
in public extended. It argues that the affair was part of a conflict over
authority between lawyers and theologians in the decades around 1700 and
illustrative of it.
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