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"In Europe, Christianity played a crucial role in the development of the concept of freedom. However, the creation of the human rights construct has primarily been formulated as an achievement of the Enlightenment, viewing the ideals of Christianity as a spiritual current and social organising force that restricts the freedom of the individual. The essays collected in this volume clearly show that the intertwining of culture, values, law and religion, especially Christianity, constitutes a special area of legal studies, and this is a research field which requires much fuller exploration. The individual papers focus on the legal questions raised by liberties, such as the right to human dignity and to the freedom of expression, religion and thought. All the authors contributing to this volume are academics from Hungary, and their papers are statements in a very timely and highly debated issue, which is of utmost importance, not only in their home country, but also in all Europe."--Jacket

Christianity and law --- Human rights --- Christian philosophy

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Thomas Aquinas's classic Treatise on Divine Law is brought to life in this illuminating line-by-line commentary, which acts as a sequel to Budziszewski's Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law. In this new work, Budziszewski reinvestigates the theory of divine law in Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, exploring questions concerning faith and reason, natural law and revelation, the organization of human society, and the ultimate destiny of human life. This interdisciplinary text includes thorough explanations, applications to life, and ancillary discussions that open up Aquinas's dense body of work, which tends to demand a great deal from readers. More than a half-century has passed since the last commentary on Thomas Aquinas's view of these matters. Budziszewski fills this gap with his consideration of not only the medieval text under examination, but also its immediate relevance to contemporary thought and issues of the modern world.

Natural law --- Christianity and law --- Law --- Religious aspects --- Philosophy --- Thomas,

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"This volume examines the lives of more than thirty-five key personalities in Latin American law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their countries and the region.The book is a significant contribution to our ability to understand the work and perspectives of jurists and their effect on legal development in Latin America. The individuals selected for study exhibit wide-ranging areas of expertise from private law and codification, through national public law and constitutional law, to international developments that left their mark on the region and the world. The chapters discuss the jurists within their historical, intellectual, and political context. The editors selected jurists after extensive consultation with legal historians in various countries of the region looking at the jurist’s particular merits, contributions to law in general, religious perspective, and importance within the specific country and period under consideration. Giving the work a diversity of international and methodological perspectives, the chapters have been written by distinguished legal scholars and historians from Latin America and around the world.The collection will appeal to scholars, lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between law and religion. Political, social, legal, and religious historians among other readers will find, for the first time in English, authoritative treatments of the region’s essential legal thinkers and authors. Students and other who may not read Spanish will appreciate these clear, accessible, and engaging English studies of the region’s great jurists".--

Church and state --- Ecclesiastical law --- Law --- Religion and law --- Christianity and law.

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"This book focuses on a vibrant central current within the history of Russian legal thought: how Christianity, and theistic belief generally, has inspired the aspiration to the rule of law in Russia, informed Russian philosophies of law, and shaped legal practices. In this volume, a team of Western and Russian scholars presents fourteen concise, non-technical portraits of modern Russian jurists and philosophers of law whose thought was shaped significantly by Orthodox Christian faith or theistic belief. Each portrait provides essential biographical information, a description of the jurist's religious views, and a substantive account of the subject's jurisprudential ideas. Each chapter ends with a word about the jurist's legacy in Russia today. The collection embraces the most creative period of Russian legal thought, the century and a half from the later Enlightenment to the Russian emigration following the Bolshevik Revolution and Civil War of 1917-1921. While many of the figures represented in this gallery were liberals, in various sense of the term, the volume reaches across the ideological spectrum. Contributors to the volume include respected senior authorities together with younger scholars of exceptional promise. This book will merit the attention of anyone interested in exploring the connections between law and religion in modern times"--

Church and state --- Church and state - Russia (Federation) --- Law - Russia (Federation) - Christian influences - History. --- Christianity and law. --- Christian lawyers - Russia (Federation) --- Christian philosophers - Russia (Federation) --- Religion and law - Russia (Federation) --- Law - Russia (Federation) --- Law --- Christian lawyers --- Christian philosophers --- Religion and law --- Christianity and law --- Law and religion --- Philosophers --- Lawyers --- Christian influences --- History --- Religious aspects --- Law and Christianity --- Law (Theology) --- History.

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Over the past two decades, a growing number of Christians in England have gone to court to enforce their right to religious liberty. Funded by conservative lobby groups and influenced by the legal strategies of their American peers, these claimants - registrars who conscientiously object to performing the marriages of same-sex couples, say, or employees asking for exceptions to uniform policies that forbid visible crucifixes - highlight the uneasy truce between law and religion in a country that maintains an established Church but is wary of public displays of religious conviction. 'Representing God' charts the changing place of public Christianity in England through the rise of Christian political activism and litigation.

Religion and law --- Christianity and law. --- Christianity and politics --- American Christianity. --- American law. --- Andrea Hatcher. --- Anna Strhan. --- Anna Su. --- Article 9 ECHR. --- Beyond Religious Freedom. --- Biblically inflected speech. --- Carol Greenhouse. --- Christ Church. --- Christian Concern. --- Christian Legal Centre. --- Christian activism. --- Christian theology. --- ECHR. --- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd. --- English Christianity. --- English law. --- European Christians. --- European Convention on Human Rights. --- Exporting Freedom. --- God's Agents. --- Human Rights Act of 1998. --- Matthew Engelke. --- Moral Ambition. --- Omri Elisha. --- Praying for Justice. --- Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law. --- Religious Difference in a Secular Age. --- Ronald Niezen. --- Saba Mahmood. --- Serving the World. --- Stephen Chapman. --- Straight to Jesus. --- Susan Friend Harding. --- Tanya Erzen. --- The Book of Jerry Falwell. --- The Impossibility of Religious Freedom. --- The Law and the Prophets. --- The Religious and Political Identities of British Evangelicals. --- Vincent Crapanzano. --- Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. --- activist-minded Christians. --- antidiscrimination. --- church-state relations. --- conservative Christian communities. --- conservative Christians. --- conservative Protestants. --- evangelicalism. --- hostile state. --- hostile world thesis. --- human rights law. --- human rights witnessing. --- legal activists. --- legal religion. --- lived religion. --- lobby groups. --- passive accommodation. --- prescriptive regulation. --- public Christianity. --- religious freedom. --- religious jewelry. --- religious liberty. --- religious organizations. --- religious organizing. --- secular law. --- secularization. --- social movements. --- state control. --- theology and law.