Book Reviews: Law, Freedom, Emotion, and Pilgrimage in Early Modern Christianity

by Ulrich L. Lehner Merio Scattola and Andreas Wagner, Prinzip und Prinzipienfrage in der Entwicklung des Modernen Naturrechts = The Question of Principles and the Development of Modern Natural Law (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: 2017), 336 pp. Merio Scattola, who died in 2015, belongs to the important historians of natural law, but is too little known outside… Read More Book Reviews: Law, Freedom, Emotion, and Pilgrimage in Early Modern Christianity

Some New Books on The Renaissance, Conscience, Certainty, and Marriage

Reviewed by Ulrich L. Lehner Professor of Religious History and Historical Theology Marquette University Roeck, Bernd. Der Morgen Der Welt Geschichte der Renaissance (München: C. H. Beck, 2017) The Zurich historian Bernd Roeck has produced a massive tome (over 1.200 pages text). It aims to give some answers to the question why the West has produced… Read More Some New Books on The Renaissance, Conscience, Certainty, and Marriage