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Aquinas, Summo Contra Gentiles, Book Two: Creation, chapters 31-38, pp. 91-115. See, for example, Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians (1535), in Luther's Works, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (St Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House, 1964), vols. 26-27. Thomas Aquinas again provides a clear theologi

ll) and life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"( I). While this colorful description is often quoted, less attention is paid to Hobbes' premise that such misery can be avoided if humans codify and enforce the rules of a civil society. Not everyone agrees with Hobbes' views, but hi

amental: The schism that split the Catholic Church. This was, at first, the work of a young German theologian named Martin Luther in the 16" Century. Luther was a man whose view of life, he would say often in later years, was shaped by a single sentence: Romans 1:17. “The righteousness of God is revealed

in awe, they are in that condition which is called war,” he wrote. “Such a war as is of every man against every man.”°’ A precondition of peace, for Hobbes, was that some country or force or tribe decisively grips a region, an empire, even the globe. “A common power to keep them all in awe,” fulfilled a

Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, Book Two: Creation, chapters 31-38, pp. 91-115. ‘ See, for example, Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians (1535), in Luther’s Works, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (St Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House, 1964), vols. 26-27. * Thomas Aquinas again provides a clear theologic

nst all) and life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”(1). While this colorful description is often quoted, less attention is paid to Hobbes’ premise that such misery can be avoided if humans codify and enforce the rules of a civil society. Not everyone agrees with Hobbes’ views, but histo