The possibility of religious freedom: early natural law and the Abrahamic faiths
Religious freedom is one of the most debated and controversial human rights in contemporary public discourse. At once a universally held human right and a flash point in the political sphere, religious freedom has resisted scholarly efforts to define its parameters. Taliaferro explores a different w...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Taliaferro, Karen, ca. 20./21. Jh., The possibility of religious freedom] (2020) (Tollefsen, Christopher, 1968 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Law and Christianity
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Secularism
/ Religious freedom
/ Legislation
/ Ius divinum
/ Natural law
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| Further subjects: | B
Abrahamic Religions
B Natural Law B Freedom Of Religion |
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| Summary: | Religious freedom is one of the most debated and controversial human rights in contemporary public discourse. At once a universally held human right and a flash point in the political sphere, religious freedom has resisted scholarly efforts to define its parameters. Taliaferro explores a different way of examining the tensions between the aims of religion and the needs of political communities, arguing that religious freedom is a uniquely difficult human right to uphold because it rests on two competing conceptions, human and divine. Drawing on classical natural law, Taliaferro expounds a new, practical theory of religious freedom for the modern world. By examining conceptions of law such as Sophocles' Antigone, Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, Ibn Rushd's Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and Tertullian's writings, The Possibility of Religious Freedom explains how expanding our notion of law to incorporate such theories can mediate conflicts of human and divine law and provide a solid foundation for religious liberty in modernity's pluralism. |
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| ISBN: | 1108539319 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781108539319 |