The Authority Of The Divine Law
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Author |
: Christine Hayes |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2017-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691176253 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691176256 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis What's Divine about Divine Law? by : Christine Hayes
How ancient thinkers grappled with competing conceptions of divine law In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law? untangles the classical and biblical roots of the Western idea of divine law and shows how early adherents to biblical tradition—Hellenistic Jewish writers such as Philo, the community at Qumran, Paul, and the talmudic rabbis—struggled to make sense of this conflicting legacy. Christine Hayes shows that for the ancient Greeks, divine law was divine by virtue of its inherent qualities of intrinsic rationality, truth, universality, and immutability, while for the biblical authors, divine law was divine because it was grounded in revelation with no presumption of rationality, conformity to truth, universality, or immutability. Hayes describes the collision of these opposing conceptions in the Hellenistic period, and details competing attempts to resolve the resulting cognitive dissonance. She shows how Second Temple and Hellenistic Jewish writers, from the author of 1 Enoch to Philo of Alexandria, were engaged in a common project of bridging the gulf between classical and biblical notions of divine law, while Paul, in his letters to the early Christian church, sought to widen it. Hayes then delves into the literature of classical rabbinic Judaism to reveal how the talmudic rabbis took a third and scandalous path, insisting on a construction of divine law intentionally at odds with the Greco-Roman and Pauline conceptions that would come to dominate the Christianized West. A stunning achievement in intellectual history, What's Divine about Divine Law? sheds critical light on an ancient debate that would shape foundational Western thought, and that continues to inform contemporary views about the nature and purpose of law and the nature and authority of Scripture.
Author |
: Mark C. Murphy |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2018-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501732010 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501732013 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Essay on Divine Authority by : Mark C. Murphy
In the first book wholly concerned with divine authority, Mark C. Murphy explores the extent of God's rule over created rational beings. The author challenges the view—widely supported by theists and nontheists alike—that if God exists, then humans must be bound by an obligation of obedience to this being. He demonstrates that this view, the "authority thesis," cannot be sustained by any of the arguments routinely advanced on its behalf, including those drawn from perfect being theology, metaethical theory, normative principles, and even Scripture and tradition. After exposing the inadequacies of the various arguments for the authority thesis, he develops his own solution to the problem of whether, and to what extent, God is authoritative. For Murphy, divine authority is a contingent matter: while created rational beings have decisive reason to subject themselves to the divine rule, they are under divine authority only insofar as they have chosen to allow God's decisions to take the place of their own in their practical reasoning. The author formulates and defends his arguments for this view, and notes its implications for understanding the distinctiveness of Christian ethics.
Author |
: Greg L. Bahnsen |
Publisher |
: American Vision |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2015-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780915815845 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0915815842 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today by : Greg L. Bahnsen
Author |
: Saint Thomas (Aquinas) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X030214313 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Treatise on Law by : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Author |
: Jean Porter |
Publisher |
: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 512 |
Release |
: 2010-10-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781467434515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1467434515 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ministers of the Law by : Jean Porter
In Ministers of the Law Jean Porter articulates a theory of legal authority derived from the natural law tradition. As she points out, the legal authority of most traditions rests on their own internal structures, independent of extralegal considerations -- legal houses built on sand, as it were. Natural law tradition, on the other hand, offers a basis for legal authority that goes beyond mere arbitrary commands or social conventions, offering some extralegal authority without compromising the independence and integrity of the law. Yet Porter does more in this volume than simply discuss historical and theoretical realms of natural law. She carries the theory into application to contemporary legal issues, bringing objective normative structures to contemporary Western societies suspicious of such concepts.
Author |
: Brian M. McCall |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages |
: 475 |
Release |
: 2018-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780268103361 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0268103364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Architecture of Law by : Brian M. McCall
This book argues that classical natural law jurisprudence provides a superior answer to the questions “What is law?” and “How should law be made?” rather than those provided by legal positivism and “new” natural law theories. What is law? How should law be made? Using St. Thomas Aquinas’s analogy of God as an architect, Brian McCall argues that classical natural law jurisprudence provides an answer to these questions far superior to those provided by legal positivism or the “new” natural law theories. The Architecture of Law explores the metaphor of law as an architectural building project, with eternal law as the foundation, natural law as the frame, divine law as the guidance provided by the architect, and human law as the provider of the defining details and ornamentation. Classical jurisprudence is presented as a synthesis of the work of the greatest minds of antiquity and the medieval period, including Cicero, Aristotle, Gratian, Augustine, and Aquinas; the significant texts of each receive detailed exposition in these pages. Along with McCall’s development of the architectural image, he raises a question that becomes a running theme throughout the book: To what extent does one need to know God to accept and understand natural law jurisprudence, given its foundational premise that all authority comes from God? The separation of the study of law from knowledge of theology and morality, McCall argues, only results in the impoverishment of our understanding of law. He concludes that they must be reunited in order for jurisprudence to flourish. This book will appeal to academics, students in law, philosophy, and theology, and to all those interested in legal or political philosophy.
Author |
: Rémi Brague |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2020-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226808055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022680805X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Law of God by : Rémi Brague
The law of God: these words conjure an image of Moses breaking the tablets at Mount Sinai, but the history of the alliance between law and divinity is so much longer, and its scope so much broader, than a single Judeo-Christian scene can possibly suggest. In his stunningly ambitious new history, Rémi Brague goes back three thousand years to trace this idea of divine law in the West from prehistoric religions to modern times—giving new depth to today’s discussions about the role of God in worldly affairs. Brague masterfully describes the differing conceptions of divine law in Judaic, Islamic, and Christian traditions and illuminates these ideas with a wide range of philosophical, political, and religious sources. In conclusion, he addresses the recent break in the alliance between law and divinity—when modern societies, far from connecting the two, started to think of law simply as the rule human community gives itself. Exploring what this disconnection means for the contemporary world, Brague—powerfully expanding on the project he began with The Wisdom of the World—re-engages readers in a millennia-long intellectual tradition, ultimately arriving at a better comprehension of our own modernity. “Brague’s sense of intellectual adventure is what makes his work genuinely exciting to read. The Law of God offers a challenge that anyone concerned with today’s religious struggles ought to take up.”—Adam Kirsch, New YorkSun “Scholars and students of contemporary world events, to the extent that these may be viewed as a clash of rival fundamentalisms, will have much to gain from Brague’s study. Ideally, in that case, the book seems to be both an obvious primer and launching pad for further scholarship.”—Times Higher Education Supplement
Author |
: Mark J. Lutz |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2012-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609090487 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609090489 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Divine Law and Political Philosophy in Plato's "Laws" by : Mark J. Lutz
All over the world secular rationalist governments and judicial authorities have been challenged by increasingly forceful claims made on behalf of divine law. For those who believe that reason—not faith—should be the basis of politics and the law, proponents of divine law raise theoretical and practical concerns that must be addressed seriously and respectfully. As Mark J. Lutz makes plain in this illuminating book, they have an important ally in Plato, whose long neglected Laws provides an eye-opening analysis of the relation between political philosophy and religion and a powerful defense of political rationalism. Plato mounts his case, Lutz reveals, through a productive dialogue between his Athenian Stranger and various devout citizens that begins by exploring the common ground between them, but ultimately establishes the authority of rational political philosophy to guide the law. The result will fascinate not only political theorists but also scholars at all levels with an interest in the intersection of religion and politics or in the questions that surround ethics and civic education.
Author |
: I. Hunter |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2002-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781403919533 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1403919534 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty by : I. Hunter
In Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty new research by leading international scholars is brought to bear on a single crucial issue: the role of early modern natural law doctrines in reconstructing the relations between moral right and civil authority in the face of profound religious and political conflict. In addition to providing fresh insights into the hard-fought struggle to legitimate a desacralised civil order, the book also shows the degree to which the legitimacy of the modern secular state remains dependent on this decisive set of developments.
Author |
: Yosef Bronstein |
Publisher |
: Academic Studies PRess |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2024-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798887194141 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Authority of the Divine Law by : Yosef Bronstein
Many Jewish groups of late antiquity assumed that they were obligated to observe the Divine Law. This book attempts to study the various rationales offered by these groups to explain the authority that the Divine Law had over them. Second Temple groups tended to look towards philosophy or metaphysics to justify the Divine Law’s authority. The tannaim, though, formulated legal arguments that obligate Israel to observe the Divine Law. While this turn towards legalism is pan-tannaitic, two distinct legal arguments can be identified in tannaitic literature. These specific arguments about the Divine Law’s authority, link to a set of issues regarding the tannaim’s conception of Divine Law and of Israel’s election.