AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionHans W. BlomPART 1 Humanist Inroads into Natural Law2 Natural Law and National Polity: The Leiden Discourse on State and Church (1575-1625)Arthur Eyffinger3 `Without Prophetic and Apostolic Voices': Niels Hemmingsen's On the law of Nature According to a Demonstrative MethodMads Langhalle Jensen4 Between Scripture and Stoicism: The Duty of Intervention in the Calvinist MonarchomachsAlberto Clerici5 Separating the Universal and Natural from the Particular in the Mosaic Legislation: The Humanist and Calvinist Context of Franciscus Junius's De politiae Mosis observatione (1595)Markus M. Totzeck6 Challenges of Universalism: Theologico-Philosophicat Considerations of Natural Law by Transylvanian Antitrinitarians in the Late Sixteenth Century [ Jacobus Palaeologus and Christian Francken)Jozsef Simon7 Natural Law, Contingency and History in the Legal Thought of Francisco SuarezDominique BauerPART 2 Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf8 Grotius on Natural Law: An Inventory of PropositionsArthur Eyffinger9 Erastianism and Natural Law in Hugo Grotius's De Imperio Summarum: Potestatum Circa SacraStefanie Ertz10 Grotius on the Foundation of Natural LawJiri Chotas11 Pufendorf's LutheranismThomas Behme12 Pufendorf: Coercion, Religious Beliefs and TolerationHeikki Haara13 Moral Entities, Divine Will and Natural Law According to PufendorfDenis Ramelet14 Providence and Uses of Grotian Strategies in Neapolitan Political Thought, 1650--1750Adriana Luna-FabritiusIndex