Why did seventeenth-century Protestants and Catholics condemn Dutch scholar Hugo Grotius's conception of "natural law"?
A) They rejected his argument that natural law scientifically disproved the Ptolemaic, God-centered universe that the church endorsed.
B) They were threatened by Grotius's belief that humans did not need an official church structure to achieve salvation.
C) They were outraged by his claims that humans were soulless and that they reverted to a state of natural law where religion had no bearing.
D) They disapproved of his belief that natural law was beyond divine authority and that natural law, as opposed to scripture or religious authority, should govern politics.
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