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1 online resource (xix, 159 pages) |
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Law and Christianity |
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Law and Christianity.
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| Contents |
Religion and Law in Late Modernity -- Antigone: The Tragedy of Human and Divine Law -- Maimonides' Middle Way: Teleology as a Guide for the Perplexed -- Between Shari'a and Human Law: Ibn Rushd and the Unwritten Law of Nature -- Arguing Natural Law: Tertullian and Religious Freedom in the Roman Empire -- Conclusion: Paradox and the Possibilities of Religious Freedom -- Appendix: Abbreviations for Tertullian's works -- Conclusion Natural Law, Modernity and Aporia -- Beyond Religious Freedom: Natural Law and Other Human Rights -- Beyond Political Theory: The Study of Nature -- Beyond Theory: The Practices of Natural Law and Religious Freedom in Society -- Moving Forward: Religious Freedom and the Way of Aporia -- Epilogue: Religious Freedom in Qatar |
| Summary |
Religious freedom is one of the most debated and controversial human rights in contemporary public discourse. At once a universally held human right and a flash point in the political sphere, religious freedom has resisted scholarly efforts to define its parameters. Taliaferro explores a different way of examining the tensions between the aims of religion and the needs of political communities, arguing that religious freedom is a uniquely difficult human right to uphold because it rests on two competing conceptions, human and divine. Drawing on classical natural law, Taliaferro expounds a new, practical theory of religious freedom for the modern world. By examining conceptions of law such as Sophocles' Antigone, Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, Ibn Rushd's Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and Tertullian's writings, The Possibility of Religious Freedom explains how expanding our notion of law to incorporate such theories can mediate conflicts of human and divine law and provide a solid foundation for religious liberty in modernity's pluralism |
| Notes |
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Freedom of religion.
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Natural law.
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Abrahamic religions.
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Abrahamic religions
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Freedom of religion
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Natural law
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108539319 |
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1108539319 |
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