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Christianity, Ethics and the Law - The Concept of Love in Christian Legal Thought (Hardcover)
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Christianity, Ethics and the Law - The Concept of Love in Christian Legal Thought (Hardcover)
Series: Law and Religion
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This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. The
work introduces love as a way to advance the emergent conversation
between constructive theology and jurisprudence that will also
inform conversations in philosophy and political theory. Love is
the central category for Christian ethical understanding. Yet, the
growing field of law and religion, and relatedly law and theology,
rarely addresses how love can shape our understanding of law. This
reflects, in part, a common assumption that law and love stand in
necessary tension. Love applies to the private and the personal.
Law, by contrast, applies to the public and the political, realms
governed by power. It is thus a mistake to envisage love as having
anything but a negative relationship to law. This conclusion
continues to govern Christian understandings of the meaning and
vocation of law. The animating idea of this volume is that the
concept of love can and should inform Christian legal thought. The
project approaches this task from the perspective of both
historical and constructive theology. Various contributions examine
how such thinkers as Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin utilised love
in their legal thought. These essays highlight often neglected
aspects of the Christian tradition. Other contributions examine
Christian love in light of contemporary legal topics including
civility, forgiveness, and secularism. Love, the book proposes, not
only matters for law but can transform the terms on which
Christians understand and engage it. The book will be of interest
to academics and researchers working in the areas of legal theory;
law and religion; law and philosophy; legal history; theology and
religious studies; and political theory.
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