Christianity and constitutionalism
- ISBN: 9780197587263
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2023
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 496
- Idiomas: Inglés
Christianity and Constitutionalism offers innovative and thoughtful analyses of the relationship between religious thought and constitutional law. Part I features contributions from historians, recounting how the relationship between the Christian faith and fundamental ideas about law, justice, and government has evolved from era to era. Part II provides analyses from constitutional lawyers on the normative implications of Christianity for particular themes in constitutional law, including sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy, the separation of powers, human rights, conscience, and federalism. Part III rounds out the study with theologians focused on particular Christian doctrines, exploring their constructive and sometimes critical implications for constitutionalism. As a whole, Christianity and Constitutionalism breaks new ground by offering wide-ranging, interdisciplinary contributions to the study of the relationship between the Christian religion and constitutional law.
INTRODUCTION
1 INTRODUCTION: Christianity and Constitutionalism
Nicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh
Part I: The Historical Influence of Christianity
2 OLD TESTAMENT: Torah and Constitutionalism
Jonathan Burnside
3 NEW TESTAMENT: "But our constitution is in heaven": New Testament sketches on the people of God between divine law and earthly rulers
Dorothea H. Bertschmann
4 ANTIQUITY: Constantine and Constitutionalism
Peter Leithart
5 PATRISTIC ERA: Augustine's Constitutionalism: Citizenship, Common Good, and Consent
Mary Keys & Colleen Mitchell
6 MIDDLE AGES: Canon Law Constitutionalism?
Richard Helmholz
7 REFORMATION: The Protestant Reformation of Constitutionalism
John Witte Jr.
8 MODERNITY: Understanding Law and Constitutionalism in Modernity: The Critical Contribution of English Reformation Public Theology
Joan Lockwood O'Donovan
Part II: Christian Perspectives on Constitutionalism
9 SOVEREIGNTY: Dual, Plural and One
Joel Harrison
10 RULE OF LAW: The Sacred Roots and Secular Shoots of the Supreme Law
Li-ann Thio
11 DEMOCRACY: Self-Government and the Kingdom of Heaven
Richard Ekins
12 SEPARATION OF POWERS: Biblical Foundations of the Separation of Powers and the Catalytical Judicial Role
Carlos Bernal
13 RIGHTS: Christian Constitutional Rights?
Julian Rivers
14 FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE: Freedom of Conscience Assessing the Christian Contribution
Ian Leigh
15 FEDERALISM: A Legal, Political and Religious Archaeology
Nicholas Aroney
PART III: Christian Theology and Constitutionalism
16 REVELATION: Scripture and Covenant
David VanDrunen
17 TRINITY: Against Leviathan: The Implications of Trinitarian Theology for Constitutionalism
David McIlroy
18 JUSTICE: Justice the Constitution and the Purpose of the Political Community
Jonathan Chaplin
19 CHRISTOLOGY: Christology and Constitutionalism
Tracey Rowland
20 NATURAL LAW: Natural Law and Natural Right Revisited
John Milbank
21 SUBSIDIARITY: Origins and Contemporary Aspects
Iain T. Benson
22 ESCHATOLOGY: The Greater Operation of Liberty
Douglas Farrow
