Christian Natural Law and Religious Freedom

A Foundation Based on Love, the True, and the Good
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-61998-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Deagon addresses the need for a robust theoretical foundation for religious freedom that accounts for its transcendent nature.

What is the idea of religious freedom? Where does it come from? Why should it be protected? These important questions for understanding religious freedom are usually addressed through secular and immanent foundations which are unable to sufficiently grapple with the religious nature of religious freedom – its connection with the divine. Deagon proposes an alternative approach rooted in Christian Natural Law. In Part I of the book, Deagon defines and develops Christian Natural Law, identifying three consistent themes: Love, the True and the Good. In Part II, Deagon deploys Christian Natural Law to articulate a theological framework for religious freedom which shows that religious freedom is an individual and social good, is oriented to the true and is grounded in love. In doing so, Deagon offers a new foundation for religious freedom which properly considers it as a matter of both human and divine action.

This book will be of interest to those engaged in law and religion studies, in particular scholars of religious freedom, theology and jurisprudence and human rights.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deagon, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

1 Introduction

Part I Articulating Christian Natural Law

2 The Different Traditions of Christian Natural Law
3 The Theological Nature of Traditional ‘Secular’ Natural Law
4 Radical Orthodoxy and the Reconciliation of Christian Natural Law

Part II Christian Natural Law as a Foundation for Religious Freedom

5 Bona: Basic Goods and the Common Good
6 Aletheia: Divine Revelation
7 Agape: The Law of Love, or the Culmination of the True and the Good

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alex Deagon is Associate Professor in the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. He is an international expert in religious freedom and the author of From Violence to Peace (2017) and Reconciling Freedom and Discrimination (2023).