Reason, Grace, and Law: Suarez and Hobbes on Coercion, Church, and State | Prof. Thomas Pink
The Thomistic Institute
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Is There a System of Coercive Legal Authority?
If we're familiar with the function of the modern state, it is mighty odd to have something like a system of legal regulation of belief. It's very odd if you're a modern liberal political philosopher, because that's a sort of thing that shouldn't be possible, but shouldn't happen. And in fact, political philosophers are saying that since Thomas Hott, through people like Locke and Leibniz, and through to our time, people like both Williams. That raises a worry that all this talk about the church as a podist does could be just kind of stuck with leftover pre-vattic material. But then we start beginning to wonder whether something has not gone rather odd
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