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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.
The political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal
development in America in the past quarter century. And while their
voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their
participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They
continue to be caricatured as anti-intellectual Bible thumpers
whose views are devoid of reason, logic, or empirical evidence.
They're seen as lemmings, following the cues of Dobson and
Robertson and marching in lock step with the Republican party on
the "culture wars" issues of abortion, gay rights, and guns. Is The
Good Book Good Enough? remedies the neglect of this highly
influential group, which makes up as much as a third of the
American public. It offers a carefully nuanced and comprehensive
portrait of evangelical attitudes on a wide range of policies and
their theological underpinnings. Each essay applies an evangelical
lens to a contemporary issue - environmentalism, immigration,
family and same-sex marriage, race relations, global human rights,
foreign policy and national security, social welfare and poverty,
and economic policy. The result thoroughly enriches our
understanding of evangelicalism as a prism through which many view
a wide range of policy debates.
In a provocative essay, philosopher Jeffrie G. Murphy asks: 'what
would law be like if we organized it around the value of Christian
love, and if we thought about and criticized law in terms of that
value?'. This book brings together leading scholars from a variety
of disciplines to address that question. Scholars have given
surprisingly little attention to assessing how the central
Christian ethical category of love - agape - might impact the way
we understand law. This book aims to fill that gap by investigating
the relationship between agape and law in Scripture, theology, and
jurisprudence, as well as applying these insights to contemporary
debates in criminal law, tort law, elder law, immigration law,
corporate law, intellectual property, and international relations.
At a time when the discourse between Christian and other world
views is more likely to be filled with hate than love, the
implications of agape for law are crucial.
In a provocative essay, philosopher Jeffrie G. Murphy asks: 'what
would law be like if we organized it around the value of Christian
love, and if we thought about and criticized law in terms of that
value?'. This book brings together leading scholars from a variety
of disciplines to address that question. Scholars have given
surprisingly little attention to assessing how the central
Christian ethical category of love - agape - might impact the way
we understand law. This book aims to fill that gap by investigating
the relationship between agape and law in Scripture, theology, and
jurisprudence, as well as applying these insights to contemporary
debates in criminal law, tort law, elder law, immigration law,
corporate law, intellectual property, and international relations.
At a time when the discourse between Christian and other world
views is more likely to be filled with hate than love, the
implications of agape for law are crucial.
The political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal
development in America in the past quarter century. And while their
voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their
participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They
continue to be caricatured as anti-intellectual Bible thumpers
whose views are devoid of reason, logic, or empirical evidence.
They're seen as lemmings, following the cues of Dobson and
Robertson and marching in lock step with the Republican party on
the "culture wars" issues of abortion, gay rights, and guns. Is The
Good Book Good Enough? remedies the neglect of this highly
influential group, which makes up as much as a third of the
American public. It offers a carefully nuanced and comprehensive
portrait of evangelical attitudes on a wide range of policies and
their theological underpinnings. Each essay applies an evangelical
lens to a contemporary issue - environmentalism, immigration,
family and same-sex marriage, race relations, global human rights,
foreign policy and national security, social welfare and poverty,
and economic policy. The result thoroughly enriches our
understanding of evangelicalism as a prism through which many view
a wide range of policy debates.
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