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Freedom and Law - A Jewish-Christian Apologetics (Hardcover)
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Freedom and Law - A Jewish-Christian Apologetics (Hardcover)
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Freedom and Law offers a provocative new view of the relationship
between human desire, the production of knowledge, and conceptions
of power by developing a nonpolemical account of divine law. Where
recent trends in political theology have insisted upon the
antagonistic nature of the law, this book presents the
paradigm-altering power of a discourse in the nexus between law and
freedom. It demonstrates how this nexus catapults religious thought
into a free and powerful engagement with nonreligious political,
ethical, and social positions. Freedom and Law challenges a
contemporary wave of scholarship, including the work of Jacob
Taubes, Giorgio Agamben, and Slavoj Zizek, that identifies Jewish
law as the originary soucre of polemic between nations and
therefore as historically responsible for the exceptionalism that
undergirds contemporary conflict. By contrast, Freedom and Law
argues that only in an account of revelatory law can divine freedom
and human freedom be thought of without contradiction. The first
part analyzes the logic of exceptionalism. In the second part, the
author argues that one cannot invoke a doctrine of election without
rigorous scrutiny of texts that portray an electing God and an
elected people. Once we scrutinize these texts, the character of
freedom and law within the divine-human relationship shows itself
to be different from that found in exceptionalist logics. The third
and final part examines the impact of the logic of the law on
Jewish-Christian apologetics. Rather than require that one defend
one's position to a nonbeliever, this logic situates all
epistemological justification within the order or freedom of God.
If the condition of the possibility of my claim is the reality of
divine freedom, such freedom also justifies the possibility of
another's claim. In a significant contribution to the
post-ecclesiastical reengagement between religion, critical theory,
and the political, Freedom and Law introduces new categories of
knowledge and action into Jewish and Christian thinking, unbound by
the dialectics of desire that has dominated the discourse of both
traditions for centuries. It shows how thinking of law and freedom
together may now enable Judaism and Christianity to engage in a
historically self-conscious and nonrelativistic relation to each
other and to nonbelievers.
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