Author : Omar Farahat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108476767
This book offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories, holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms and its reading of the issue of reason breaks new ground in Islamic theology, law and ethics. It will appeal to students and scholars of Islamic studies, Islamic ethics, law and post-colonial theory.
Author : Duncan Black Macdonald
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Islam
ISBN :
Author : Joseph E. David
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 331906584X
The book provides in depth studies of two epistemological aspects of Jewish Law (Halakhah) as the ‘Word of God’ – the question of legal reasoning and the problem of knowing and remembering. - How different are the epistemological concerns of religious-law in comparison to other legal systems? - In what ways are jurisprudential attitudes prescribed and dependent on theological presumptions? - What specifies legal reasoning and legal knowledge in a religious framework? The author outlines the rabbinic jurisprudential thought rooted in Talmudic literature which underwent systemization and enhancement by the Babylonian Geonim and the Andalusian Rabbis up until the twelfth century. The book develops a synoptic view on the growth of rabbinic legal thought against the background of Christian theological motifs on the one hand and Karaite and Islamic systemized jurisprudence on the other hand. It advances a perspective of legal-theology that combines analysis of jurisprudential reflections and theological views within a broad historical and intellectual framework. The book advocates two approaches to the study of the legal history of the Halakhah: comparative jurisprudence and legal-theology, based on the understanding that jurisprudence and theology are indispensable and inseparable pillars of legal praxis.
Author : Norman Doe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107186447
This book compares historical and modern natural law ideas across global Christian traditions and explores their use in church law.
Author : David C. Flatto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108787983
The conventional approach to law and religion assumes that these are competing domains, which raises questions about the freedom of, and from, religion; alternate commitments of religion and human rights; and respective jurisdictions of civil and religious courts. This volume moves beyond this competitive paradigm to consider law and religion as overlapping and interrelated frameworks that structure the social order, arguing that law and religion share similar properties and have a symbiotic relationship. Moreover, many legal systems exhibit religious characteristics, informing their notions of authority, precedent, rituals and canonical texts, and most religions invoke legal concepts or terminology. The contributors address this blurring of law and religion in the contexts of political theology, secularism, church-state conflicts, and the foundational idea of divine law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Harold J. Berman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802848529
This book argues that despite the tensions existing in all societies between religious faith and legal order, they inevitably interact. In the course of his discussion Berman traces the history of Western law, exposes the fallacies of law theories that fail to take religion into account, examines key theological, prophetic, and educational themes, and looks at the role of religion in the Soviet and post-Soviet state.
Author : Duncan Black Macdonald
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN :
Author : David W. Opderbeck
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506434339
Law and Theology offers the definitive account of the relationship between law and theology in the Christian tradition. Drawing on diverse biblical texts and classic authors from the early church to contemporary voices from the modern period, David W. Opderbeck examines key legal questions and controversial case studies from an interdisciplinary perspective, breaking new ground for legal scholars and theologians alike. As a law professor, practicing attorney, and theologian, Opderbeck writes as an insider from both disciplines. This unique look brings fresh insight for both fields in a context where questions of theology and law are especially relevant--and increasingly urgent. Going beyond the culture wars, Opderbeck brings these real-world cases to life, examining the ins and outs of the most important legal questions facing American civic and religious life. Scholars and students of law and theology will find this book to be required reading in and outside the legal and theological classrooms.
Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199535299
An introduction to natural law theory and a challenge to re-think current biblical scholarship on the topic. Levering establishes the relevance of a biblical worldview to the contemporary pursuit of a moral life and locates his argument in the context of the philosophical development of natural law theory from Cicero to Nietzsche.
Author : Alex Deagon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509912916
This book contributes to the literature on jurisprudence and theology by arguing for the role of a theoretically robust Christian theology in a legal community dominated by secular and liberal ideology. It is not a doctrinal or empirical analysis, but a theoretical exposition of the way in which modern law has contingently drifted from its theological origins. As a result, the legal system and the ideal of individual and communal relationship it envisages is characterised by antagonism and alienation, or more broadly, violence. The book contends that the way to restore a legal community of peace is to return to a Christian theology which is informed by Trinitarian thinking or the notion of unity in diversity, and reunites faith with reason. Returning reason to its ground in being allows peaceful persuasion by the revelation of God's perfect being through the Trinity and Incarnation, which models and enables the peaceful coexistence of difference through self-sacrificing love. This in turn produces the law of love – to love your neighbour as yourself. Since love does no wrong to a neighbour, a legal community operating by the law of love can fulfil the obligations of law by going beyond merely what is required by law and love individuals as part of a community.
