Abstract
This paper suggests an important role of religious discourses in the process of secularization and Nation-State Building in face to the English and French civil wars. This paper also compares the aspects of eschatology and demonology or providence in this discourses by discussing Junius Brutus' Vindiciae contra Tyrannos, Jean Bodin's Les Six Livres de la République and his De la démonomanie des sorciers, also Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. In the early stage of the English Nation-State Building, the language of eschatology had a key function for secularization and detachment from the Catholic “universal” cosmology. Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan should be read in this context of the wide prevalence of millennialism and antinomianism, which the revolutionary agencies used for vindicating their regicide, and which Hobbes disproved for overcoming the Civil War. On the other hand, in the Catholic and Gallican French, finding any eschatological discourse even in the document of Monarchomachi is difficult; therefore, this paper suggests a dominance of terms of demonology and legalism in the religious discourses.
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