The renaissance of Gnosticism in the state-legal teachings of Europe of the XVIII century

Palyulin Anton Yurievich

The Gnostic ideas of knowing absolute truth through divine revelation overcame the "dark ages" of the Middle Ages and found their rebirth in the Age of Enlightenment. Studies of "ideal law" and the ideal concept of the state led to the return of European thinkers of the Enlightenment to Gnostic concepts. The relationship between morality, positive law, divine and natural law was the subject of the search for lawyers of the 18th century. Power and state, subordination and coercion were rethought through the prism of Gnosticism.

Keywords:Gnosticism, Jesuits, Catholicism, Protestantism, revolution, Suarez, theology, Haskala, Christianity.