Diese Reihe befasst sich mit den tiefgreifenden Verknüpfungen von Recht und Christentum und untersucht den Einfluss verschiedener christlicher Traditionen auf Rechtssysteme und -theorie. Veröffentlichungen dieser Sammlung bieten wissenschaftliche Reflexionen über die Grundlagen von Recht und Politik. Ziel ist die Förderung ökumenischen Verständnisses über christliche Konfessionen hinweg und die Stärkung der Verbindungen zwischen vielfältigen christlichen juristischen Perspektiven in der akademischen Welt. Die Werke umfassen wegweisende Monografien, Anthologien und Übersetzungen führender globaler Gelehrter.
This timely book offers a theistic approach to secular legal systems and demonstrates that these systems are neither agnostic nor atheist. Critical but succinct in its approach, this book focuses on an extensive range of liberal legal approaches to religious and moral issues, and subject them to critical scrutiny from a secular perspective.
Focusing on the rights and liberties surrounding religion, beliefs, and conscience, this book engages with contemporary debates in an increasingly secular society. It explores the tensions between individual freedoms and societal norms, offering insights into the challenges faced by various belief systems today. Through its analysis, it aims to illuminate the importance of preserving these rights in the context of modern secularization.
A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.
How would we understand early modern political context differently if we accounted for the theological commitments of early modern resistance theorists? The Immortal Commonwealth argues that by taking these theological sources seriously, we have a richer, truer perspective on early modern radical political thought.
Drawing on classical natural law to bridge the gaps between human and divine law, Taliaferro expounds a new, practical theory of religious freedom for the modern world, and lucidly explains the challenges involved. This book will appeal to scholars of religion, and law, as well as classical Judaism, Christianity and Islamic studies.
This book will be of interest to students, teachers, and scholars in a variety of fields, including law, theology and religious studies, political science, philosophy, and history. The essays, by leading scholars from these fields, address classic theological issues as well as contemporary debates in law and politics.
John Calvin's two kingdoms political thought offers a fresh paradigm for constructive Christian engagement in pluralistic liberal societies.
This book relates our most important mode of social organization, law, to two of our most cherished values, love and freedom. It sketches the moral vision that underlies our modern legal order. This book speaks to lawyers, philosophers, theologians and historians, who are interested in law as a humanistic discipline.