Glimpses #122: Hugo Grotius: A Good Lawyer on the Lam
Product Code: GLM122
Format: 4-page bulletin insert
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Product Description: A scholar's life is supposed to be uneventful, is it not—without threat more serious than a tumbling stack of books? On August 29, 1618, Hugo Grotius may have wished this were so. Moments earlier he had arrived at the Hague to attend a meeting. The doorkeeper directed him to Prince Maurices' rooms. He added, "Barnevelt is already there." Grotius went up. Barnevelt was there all right—a prisoner.
The captain of the guard seized Grotius also. In a stunning coup, the Netherlands' Calvinists had captured the Armenian political leaders. As happened so often in history, religion had gotten mixed with power politics. In its simplest terms, the controversy amounted to this: the Armenians believed a man had some say in his salvation; strict Calvinists said it was entirely God's decree. In politics, the Armenians were for states' rights, the Calvinists for more centralized authority.
