为了消除君主干预宗教事务的权力,耶稣会思想家通过对国家起源过程的详细考察,“证明了”宗教事务并不属于世俗君主的职责。虽然耶稣会思想家的良苦用心并没能阻止教会权力的急剧衰落及至完全瓦解,但他们却在不经意间为自然法概念在近代的复兴提供了契机,他们也因此而成为近代自然法理论的先驱。 In order to eliminate the monarch’s power to interfere in religious affairs, the Jesuit thinkers, through a detailed examination of the origins of the country, “proved that” religious affairs are not part of the duties of secular monarchs. Although the good intentions of the Jesuit thinkers did not prevent the rapid decline and complete collapse of the church power, they inadvertently provided an opportunity for the modern rejuvenation of the notions of natural law, and they became the forerunners of modern natural law theory .