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Author: Norman Doe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-20
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107186447
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book compares historical and modern natural law ideas across global Christian traditions and explores their use in church law.
Author: Jeffrey B. Hammond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-24
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1108835384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience for both scholarly and educated general audiences.
Author: Harry J. Gensler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-05-31
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1107052440
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book develops strong versions of divine command theory and natural law and defends the importance of God to morality.
Author: John Witte, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-04-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521697491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What impact has Christianity had on the law from its beginnings to the present day? This introduction explores the main legal teachings of Western Christianity, set out in the texts and traditions of scripture and theology, philosophy and jurisprudence. It takes up the weightier matters of the law that Christianity has profoundly shaped - justice and mercy, rule and equity, discipline and love - as well as more technical topics of canon law, natural law, and state law. Some of these legal creations were wholly original to Christianity. Others were converted from Jewish and classical traditions. Still others were reformed by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophers. But whether original or reformed, these Christian teachings on law, politics and society have made and can continue to make fundamental contributions to modern law in the West and beyond.
Author: Andrew Forsyth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-11
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 110847697X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law's varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.
Author: Tom Angier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-07
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1108422632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do ethical norms relate to human nature? This comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume surveys the latest thinking on natural law.
Author: Stephen J. Grabill
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2006-10-05
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0802863132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is knowledge of right and wrong written on the human heart? Do people know God from the world around them? Does natural knowledge contribute to Christian doctrine? While these questions of natural theology and natural law have historically been part of theological reflection, the radical reliance of twentieth-century Protestant theologians on revelation has eclipsed this historic connection. Stephen Grabill attempts the treacherous task of reintegrating Reformed Protestant theology with natural law by appealing to Reformation-era theologians such as John Calvin, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Johannes Althusius, and Francis Turretin, who carried over and refined the traditional understanding of this key doctrine. Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics calls Christian ethicists, theologians, and laypersons to take another look at this vital element in the history of Christian ethical thought.
Author: Kody W. Cooper
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2018-03-30
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 0268103046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism of John Bramhall, Hobbes has generally been regarded as advancing a moral and political theory that is antithetical to classical natural law theory. Kody W. Cooper challenges this traditional interpretation of Hobbes in Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law. Hobbes affirms two essential theses of classical natural law theory: the capacity of practical reason to grasp intelligible goods or reasons for action and the legally binding character of the practical requirements essential to the pursuit of human flourishing. Hobbes’s novel contribution lies principally in his formulation of a thin theory of the good. This book seeks to prove that Hobbes has more in common with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of natural law philosophy than has been recognized. According to Cooper, Hobbes affirms a realistic philosophy as well as biblical revelation as the ground of his philosophical-theological anthropology and his moral and civil science. In addition, Cooper contends that Hobbes's thought, although transformative in important ways, also has important structural continuities with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of practical reason, theology, social ontology, and law. What emerges from this study is a nuanced assessment of Hobbes’s place in the natural law tradition as a formulator of natural law liberalism. This book will appeal to political theorists and philosophers and be of particular interest to Hobbes scholars and natural law theorists.
Author: Anver M. Emon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 019870660X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book critically and constructively explores the resources offered for natural law doctrine by classical thinkers from three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Three scholars each offer a programmatic essay on natural law doctrine in their particular religious tradition and then respond to the other two essays.
Author: Robert F. Cochran, Jr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-22
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1000225097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in private law theory, and this book contributes to that discussion by drawing on the historical, theological, and philosophical resources of the Christian tradition. The book begins with an introduction from the editors that lays out the understanding of "private law" and what distinguishes private law topics from other fields of law. This section includes two survey chapters on natural law and biblical sources. The remaining sections of the book move sequentially through the fields of property, contracts, and torts. Several chapters focus on historical sources and show the ways in which the evolution of legal doctrine in areas of private law has been heavily influenced by Christian thinkers. Other chapters draw out more contemporary and public policy-related implications for private law. While this book is focused on the relationship of Christianity to private law, it will be of broad interest to those who might not share that faith perspective. In particular, legal historians and philosophers of law will find much of interest in the original scholarship in this volume. The book will be attractive to teachers of law, political science, and theology. It will be of special interest to the many law faculty in property, contracts, and torts, as it provides a set of often overlooked historical and theoretical perspectives on these fields.
