Feb 13, 2026

This part of the Makers of the Modern World series discusses the ideas of the Lutheran philosopher and theologian Christian Thomasius who changed the way people in Europe began to think about philosophy, law, and scholarship.

Feb 6, 2026

This episode is part of the ongoing "Makers of the Modern World" series. In this video, I look at an influential Lutheran philosopher and theologian named Samuel Pufendorf in the mid-seventeenth century and his contribution to the decline of traditional understandings of natural law.