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• Introduction / Zachary R. Calo, Joshua Neoh, and A. Keith Thompson
• John Calvin and the law of love / Constance Youngwon Lee
• "To heal the wounds of sinners" : law, love, and forgiveness / Zachary R. Calo
• Why secularism is no option for a Christian citizen : Augustine's analysis of love in the city / Renée Köhler-Ryan
• Why Lutheranism is no option for a meaningful jurisprudence of love / Augusto Zimmermann
• Law and love in monasticism / Joshua Neoh
• The law of love as principles of civility : secular translation or religious contribution? / Alex Deagon
• The loving sword : the implications of divine simplicity for civil law / Benjamin B. Saunders
• Aquinas on love, law, and happiness : the interconnection between divine law, human law, and rational love / Stefanus Hendrianto SJ
• From alterity to proximity : Emmanuel Levinas on the natural law of love / Jonathan Crowe
• "Proving contraries" : Joseph Smith on law and love / Donlu Thayer
• From coercion to covenant : what kind of higher law did Jesus have in mind? / A. Keith Thompson
• The forgiveness of love in charity : getting conversationally opened up / Patrick McKinley Brennan

"This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. The work introduces love as a way to advance the emergent conversation between constructive theology and jurisprudence that will also inform conversations in philosophy and political theory. Love is the central category for Christian ethical understanding. Yet, the growing field of law and religion, and relatedly law and theology, rarely address how love can shape our understanding of law. This reflects, in part, a common assumption that law and love stand in necessary tension. Love applies to the private and the personal. Law, by contrast, applies to the public and the political, realms governed by power. It is thus a mistake to envisage love as having anything but a negative relationship to law. This conclusion continues to govern Christian understandings of the meaning and vocation of law. The animating idea of this volume is that the concept of love can and should inform Christian legal thought. The project approaches this task from the perspective of both historical and constructive theology. Various contributions examine how such thinkers as Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin utilised love in their legal thought. These essays highlight often neglected aspects of the Christian tradition. Other contributions examine Christian love in light of contemporary legal topics including civility, forgiveness, and secularism. Love, the book proposes, not only matters for law but can transform the terms on which Christians understand and engage it. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of legal theory; law and religion; law and philosophy; legal history; theology and religious studies; and political theory"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction / Zachary R. Calo, Joshua Neoh, and A. Keith Thompson
• John Calvin and the law of love / Constance Youngwon Lee
• "To heal the wounds of sinners" : law, love, and forgiveness / Zachary R. Calo
• Why secularism is no option for a Christian citizen : Augustine's analysis of love in the city / Renée Köhler-Ryan
• Why Lutheranism is no option for a meaningful jurisprudence of love / Augusto Zimmermann
• Law and love in monasticism / Joshua Neoh
• The law of love as principles of civility : secular translation or religious contribution? / Alex Deagon
• The loving sword : the implications of divine simplicity for civil law / Benjamin B. Saunders-- Aquinas on love, law, and happiness : the interconnection between divine law, human law, and rational love / Stefanus Hendrianto SJ
• From alterity to proximity : Emmanuel Levinas on the natural law of love / Jonathan Crowe
• "Proving contraries" : Joseph Smith on law and love / Donlu Thayer
• From coercion to covenant : what kind of higher law did Jesus have in mind? / A. Keith Thompson
• The forgiveness of love in charity : getting conversationally opened up / Patrick McKinley Brennan

"This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. The work introduces love as a way to advance the emergent conversation between constructive theology and jurisprudence that will also inform conversations in philosophy and political theory. Love is the central category for Christian ethical understanding. Yet, the growing field of law and religion, and relatedly law and theology, rarely address how love can shape our understanding of law. This reflects, in part, a common assumption that law and love stand in necessary tension. Love applies to the private and the personal. Law, by contrast, applies to the public and the political, realms governed by power. It is thus a mistake to envisage love as having anything but a negative relationship to law. This conclusion continues to govern Christian understandings of the meaning and vocation of law. The animating idea of this volume is that the concept of love can and should inform Christian legal thought. The project approaches this task from the perspective of both historical and constructive theology. Various contributions examine how such thinkers as Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin utilised love in their legal thought. These essays highlight often neglected aspects of the Christian tradition. Other contributions examine Christian love in light of contemporary legal topics including civility, forgiveness, and secularism. Love, the book proposes, not only matters for law but can transform the terms on which Christians understand and engage it. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of legal theory; law and religion; law and philosophy; legal history; theology and religious studies; and political theory"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Can we do without political theology?
• The mortal God
• The 'political' as the power of the negative
• The worldly God
• Politics as a "religious question"
• Political theology and populism
• Critique of economic theology
• Conclusions: The sense of what is missing

"This book addresses two main questions. Can political theology be overcome? And, is what today - in referring to neoliberalism and its genealogy - many define as "economic theology" truly an alternative to political theology, as Foucault has claimed and as Agamben does today? As a first step, the book addresses and clarifies various misunderstandings about the notion of political theology, in its multiple and even opposite meanings. It then focuses on a conceptualisation inaugurated by Carl Schmitt, which sees political theology as the eloquent matrix of modern politics: insofar as the latter produces and continuously re-elaborates an "excess" that does not belong to it, its core remains theological-political, although secularised. The bulk of the book then pursues a reading of the analogic connection between juridico-political concepts and theological-metaphysical concepts; arguing that, although the 'turn' to economic theology is indeed another form of political theology, it is a deeply anti-political one, which forecloses modes of resistance. The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and advanced students in the fields of modern political and legal philosophy and those researching the crisis of its legacy. In particular, it is addressed to those who study the relationship between theology (and its substitutes, such as hegemony and political myth) and politics, power and law, legitimacy and legality, in the perspective of secularization. In addition, the book offers a contribution to contemporary critical studies on the neoliberal state and the return of the "state of exception" in democracies, as well as a questioning of the moralization of law, which is an effect of globalist ideology and the "humanitarian turn" after 1989"-- Provided by publisher

• List of contributors
• Introduction / David C. Flatto and Benjamin Porat
• A. Sanctification and secularization
• 1. Desanctification of law and the problem of absolutes / Jeremy Waldron
• 2. The paradox of human rights discourse and the Jewish legal tradition / Suzanne Last Stone
• 3. Sovereign imaginaries : visualizing the sacred foundation of law's authority / Richard K. Sherwin
• B. Legal-religious language
• 4. Dat : from law to religion : the transformation of formative term in modern times / Abraham Melamed
• 5. Law as religion, religion as law : Halakhah from a semiotic point of view / Bernard S. Jackson
• 6. Canonicity as a defining feature of legal and religious discourse : a programmatic essay / Daniel Reifman
• C. Legal-theological roots
• 7. Exceptional grace : religion as the sovereign suspension of law / Robert A. Yelle
• 8. A bad man theory of religious law (Numbers 15:30-31 and its afterlife) / David C. Flatto
• 9. Soviet law and political religion / Dmytro Vovk
• 10. International law as evangelism / Kevin Crow
• D. Religious conceptions of law
• 11. "Enjoin them upon your children to keep" (Deuteronomy 32:46) : law as commandment and legacy, or, Robert Cover Meets Midrash / Steven D. Fraade
• 12. "Between man and God" and "between man and his fellow ": categories in polemical context / Itzhak Brand
• 13. Christian feasts and administration of Roman justice in Late Antiquity / Silvia Schiavo
• E. Law in formation : religious perspectives
• 14. Law as a problematic aspect of religion : Paul's skepticism in a broader Jewish context / Serge Ruzer
• 15. When law meets theology : legality and revelation in the Jewish, Islamic, and Zoroastrian traditions in the Abbasid period / Yishai Kiel

The conventional approach to law and religion assumes that these are competing domains, which raises questions about the freedom of, and from, religion; alternate commitments of religion and human rights; and respective jurisdictions of civil and religious courts. This volume moves beyond this competitive paradigm to consider law and religion as overlapping and interrelated frameworks that structure the social order, arguing that law and religion share similar properties and have a symbiotic relationship. Moreover, many legal systems exhibit religious characteristics, informing their notions of authority, precedent, rituals and canonical texts, and most religions invoke legal concepts or terminology. The contributors address this blurring of law and religion in the contexts of political theology, secularism, church-state conflicts, and the foundational idea of divine law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile "residents" living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an argues that these biblical laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur'anic law. This volume corroborates its central claim by assessing laws for gentiles in late antique Jewish and especially in Christian legal discourse, pointing to previously underappreciated legal continuity from the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament and from late antique Christianity to nascent Islam. This volume first sketches the legal obligations that the Hebrew Bible imposes on gentiles, on humanity more broadly and, more specifically, on the non-Israelite residents of the Holy Land. It then traces these laws through Second Temple Judaism to the early Jesus movement, illustrating how the biblical laws for residents inform those formulated in Acts of the Apostles. Building on this legal continuity, the study employs detailed historical and literary analyses of legal narratives in order to make three propositions. Firstly, rabbinic laws for gentiles, the so-called Noahide Laws, while offering a more lenient interpretation than the one we find in Acts, are equally based on the biblical laws for gentiles. Secondly, Christians generally appreciated and even expanded the gentile laws of Acts. Thirdly, the Qur'an reinvents Arabian religious practice by formulating its own distinctive approach to the biblical laws for gentiles, in close continuity with - and at times in critical distance from - late antique Jewish and especially Christian gentile law.
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• Chapter One: Approaches to Ancient Israel's Legal World Chapter Two: Icelandic Oral-Written Law Interlude: Gothic Law as Control Resume: Oral-Written Customary Law Chapter Three: Oral-Written Customary Law in Ancient Israel Chapter Four: Oral Law and Proverbs.
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This book presents a new window on the legal system of Ancient Israel. Building on the understanding that Israel was a society where writing was the medium for some forms of discourse but not others, where written texts were performed orally and rewritten from oral performances, Robert D. Miller II, OFS, examines law and jurisprudence in this oral-and-literate world. Using Iceland as an ethnographic analogy, Miller shows how law was practiced, performed, and transmitted; the way written artifacts of the law fit into oral performance and transmission; and the relationship of the detritus of law that survives in the Hebrew Bible, both Torah and Proverbs, to that earlier social world.
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• Christianity and international law : an introduction / John D. Haskell and Pamela Slotte
• The Byzantine Commonwealth and the emerging features of a law of nations in the first millennium / Peter Petkoff
• Christianity and the birth of ambassadorial deontology : some historical notes / Tiziana Faitini and Dante Fedele
• Formation and refiguration of the canon law on trade with infidels (c.1200 - c.1600) / Stefan Stantchev
• God, sovereignty, and the morality of intervention outside Europe / David M. Lantigua
• The significance of Christian charity to international law / Jennifer L. Beard
• Hugo Grotius : on freedom of the seas and human nature / Roland Boer
• Ius gentium et naturae : the human conscience and early modern international law / Janne E. Nijman
• Legalizing antisemitism? : the legacy of Savigny's roman(tic) law / Reut Yael Paz
• Missionary knowledge and the empirical foundations of modern international legal thought / Jedidiah J. Kroncke
• Standards for a righteous and civilized world : religion and America's emergence as a global power / Andrew Preston
• International Protestantism and its changing religious freedoms / Udi Greenberg
• Beyond the freedom of worship : the contested meaning of religious freedom in international human rights law and politics, 1945-1967 / Linde Lindkvist
• Process theology and a pluralistic foundation for human rights / Mark C. Modak-Truran
• Christianity and human rights law : Orthodox perspectives / Elena Namli
• Conquest, sacred sites, and "religion" in a time of crisis / Nathaniel Berman
• Constantine's legacy : preserving empire while undermining international law / Craig B. Mousin
• Hopelessly practicing law : asylum seekers, advocates, and hostile jurisdictions / Silas W. Allard
• The hidden theology of international legal positivism / Akbar Rasulov

This cross-disciplinary collaboration offers historical and contemporary scholarship exploring the interface of Christianity and international law. Christianity and International Law aims to understand and move past arguments, narratives and tropes that commonly frame law-religion studies in global governance. Readers are introduced to a range of confessional and critical perspectives explicitly engaging a diverse range of methodological and theoretical orientations to rethink how we experience and find ourselves caught within the phenomena of Christianity and international law.
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• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Christianity and international law: an introduction John D. Haskell and Pamela Slotte
• 2. The Byzantine commonwealth and the emerging features of a law of nations in the first millennium Peter Petkoff
• 3. Christianity and the birth of ambassadorial deontology: some historical notes Tiziana Faitini and Dante Fedele
• 4. Formation and refiguration of the canon law on trade with infidels (ca. 1200-ca. 1600) Stefan Stantchev
• 5. God, sovereignty, and the morality of intervention outside Europe David M. Lantigua
• 6. The significance of Christian charity to international law Jennifer L. Beard
• 7. Hugo Grotius on freedom of the seas and human nature Roland Boer
• 8. Ius gentium et naturae: the human conscience and early modern international law Janne E. Nijman
• 9. Legalizing antisemitism? The legacy of Savigny's roman(tic) law Reut Yael Paz
• 10. Missionary knowledge and the empirical foundations of modern international legal thought Jedidiah J. Kroncke
• 11. Standards for a righteous and civilized world: religion and America's emergence as a global power Andrew Preston
• 12. International Protestantism and its changing religious freedoms Udi Greenberg
• 13. Beyond the freedom of worship: the contested meaning of religious freedom in international human rights law and politics, 1945-1967 Linde Lindkvist
• 14. Truran - process theology and a pluralistic foundation for human rights Mark C. Modak
• 15. Christianity and human rights law: orthodox perspectives Elena Namli
• 16. Conquest, sacred sites, and 'religion' in a time of crisis Nathaniel Berman
• 17. Constantine's legacy: preserving empire while undermining international law Craig Mousin
• 18. Hopelessly practicing law: asylum seekers, advocates, and hostile jurisdictions Silas W. Allard
• 19. The hidden theology of international legal positivism Akbar Rasulov
• Selected bibliography
• Index.
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This cross-disciplinary collaboration offers historical and contemporary scholarship exploring the interface of Christianity and international law. Christianity and International Law aims to understand and move past arguments, narratives and tropes that commonly frame law-religion studies in global governance. Readers are introduced to a range of confessional and critical perspectives explicitly engaging a diverse range of methodological and theoretical orientations to rethink how we experience and find ourselves caught within the phenomena of Christianity and international law.
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• Introduction / Helen M. Alvaré and Jeffrey B. Hammond
• Part I. Themes in understandings of conscience in Christianity
• Conscience in the New Testament / Wendell Willis
• Conscience and natural law in scripture / David VanDrunen
• Conscience in early Christian thought / John Anthony McGuckin
• Sensus fidei, the magisterium, and the formation of conscience / E. Christian Brugger
• Part II. Conscience according to major figures and traditions
• Conscience in the early church fathers / Alexis Torrance
• St. Thomas Aquinas on conscience / Cajetan Cuddy OP
• Reforming the conscience : magisterial reformers on the theory and practice of conscience / John L. Thompson
• Toward a theology of a redeemed conscience / Jeffrey B. Hammond
• Pierre Bayle : an enlightened alternative to John Locke / Edward Andrew
• Freedom of conscience and its right to constitutional protection : the contribution of Roger Williams / David Little
• Jonathan Edwards on conscience / Michael McClymond
• Obeying God rather than men : uneasy evangelicals, conscience, and politics / Micah Watson
• Mormonism and conscience / Rosalynde Welch and Nathan B. Oman
• Culture and conscience in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI / Peter J. Casarella
• Part III. Applied topics in law and conscience
• Liberty of conscience, free exercise of religion, and the US Constitution / Nathan S. Chapman
• Religious conscience protections in American state constitutions / Michael J. DeBoer
• Forced conformity or accommodation? : reconciling conscience and difference in a pluralistic democracy / Mark Rienzi
• Christian conscience and sexual expression rights / Helen M. Alvaré
• Conscience and the Roman Catholic "just war" tradition / Joseph E. Capizzi
• Institutional conscience, corporate persons, and Hobby Lobby / Christopher Tollefsen
• Religion, conscience, and the law : reasons, bases, and limits for exemptions / R. Kent Greenawalt

Conscience has long been a foundational theme in Christian ethics, but it is a notoriously slippery and contested term. This volume works to define conscience and reveal the similarities and differences between different Christian traditions' thinking on the subject. In a thorough and scholarly manner, the authors explore Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience. Covering a range of historical periods, major figures in the development of conscience, and contemporary applications, this book is a vital source for scholars from a wide variety of disciplines seeking to understand conscience from a range of perspectives.
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• Part I. Themes in Understandings of Conscience in Christianity: 1. New Testament on conscience Wendell Willis
• 2. Conscience and natural law in scripture David VanDrunen
• 3. Conscience in early Christian thought John Anthony McGuckin
• 4. Sensus Fidei, the magisterium, and the formation of conscience E. Christian Brugger
• Part II. Conscience According to Major Figures and Traditions: 5. Conscience in the early church fathers Alexis Torrance
• 6. St Thomas Aquinas on conscience Cajetan Cuddy, OP
• 7. Reforming the conscience: magisterial reformers on the theory and practice of conscience John L. Thompson
• 8. Toward a theology of a redeemed conscience Jeffrey B. Hammond
• 9. Pierre Bayle: an enlightened alternative to John Locke Edward Andrew
• 10. Freedom of conscience and its right to constitutional protection: the contribution of Roger Williams David Little
• 11. Jonathan Edwards on conscience Michael McClymond
• 12. Obeying God rather than men: uneasy evangelicals, conscience, and politics Micah Watson
• 13. Mormonism and conscience Rosalynde Welch and Nathan B. Oman
• 14. Culture and conscience in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI Peter J. Casarella
• Part III. Applied Topics in Law and Conscience: 15. Liberty of conscience, free exercise of religion, and the U.S. constitution Nathan S. Chapman
• 16. Religious conscience protections in American state constitutions Michael J. DeBoer
• 17. Forced conformity or accommodation? How to reconcile conscience and difference in a pluralistic democracy Mark Rienzi
• 18. Christian conscience and sexual expression rights Helen M. Alvare
• 19. Conscience and war Joseph Capizzi
• 20. Institutional conscience, corporate persons, and Hobby Lobby Christopher Tollefsen
• 21. Religion, conscience, and the law: reasons, bases, and limits for exemptions R. Kent Greenawalt
• Index.
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Conscience has long been a foundational theme in Christian ethics, but it is a notoriously slippery and contested term. This volume works to define conscience and reveal the similarities and differences between different Christian traditions' thinking on the subject. In a thorough and scholarly manner, the authors explore Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience. Covering a range of historical periods, major figures in the development of conscience, and contemporary applications, this book is a vital source for scholars from a wide variety of disciplines seeking to understand conscience from a range of perspectives.
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• Introduction / Norman Doe
• The evolution of the principles of Christian Law / Norman Doe
• Roman Catholic canon law / Aidan McGrath and Robert Ombres
• The Eastern Catholic churches / Astrid Kaptijn
• The Orthodox canonical tradition / Nikos Maghioros
• The Anglican canonical tradition / Mark Hill
• A Lutheran perspective / Andreas Henriksen Aarflot
• Methodist law and discipline / John A. Harrod
• Reformed church order / Leon van den Broeke
• The Presbyterian tradition / John Chalmers
• Baptist church polity / Paul Goodliff
• Pentecostal church polity / Paul Rochester
• The polity of the united and uniting churches / Leo J. Koffeman
• Conclusion / Grand Ecclesiarch Aetios (Dimitrios Nikiforos)

Written by experts from within their communities, this book compares the legal regimes of Christian churches as systems of religious law. The ecumenical movement, with its historical theological focus, has failed to date to address the role of church law in shaping relations between churches and fostering greater mutual understanding between them. In turn, theologians and jurists from the different traditions have not hitherto worked together on a fully ecumenical appreciation of the potential value of church laws to help, and sometimes to hinder, the achievement of greater Christian unity. This book seeks to correct this ecumenical church law deficit. It takes account of the recent formulation by an ecumenical panel of a Statement of Principles of Christian Law, which has been welcomed by Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Orthodox Church worldwide, as recognizing the importance of canon law for ecumenical dialogue. This book, therefore, not only provides the fruits of an understanding of church laws within ten Christian traditions, but also critically evaluates the Statement against the laws of these individual ecclesial communities. The book will be an essential resource for scholars of law and religion, theology, and sociology. It will also be of interest to those working in religious institutions and policy-makers.
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• Introduction
• Overview of the different bodies of religious law
• Various approaches
• Our approach : research subject
• Methods of comparative law of religions
• Universality and particularity of the law
• The significance of religious law within state law
• Summary and outlook

Comparative law of religions has developed in recent years as a new discipline at the intersection of legal and religious science, of theology and anthropology. This book presents a systematic theoretical basis for this new discipline. While law is mostly associated with the state, many religions also have their own internal law. These internal legal norms are aimed at a particular form of behaviour on the part of believers. They therefore play a particular role in conflicts arising today between certain religious forms of behaviour. The comparison of the internal law of religions serves to establish and explain the commonalities and differences between various religious legal traditions. The religions examined here include: the law of Christian denominations, Jewish law, Islamic law, Hindu law, Buddhist law, and other religious legal systems. The work assesses six current approaches to the comparative law of religions, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses, leading to the development of a new approach. The book discusses the role of religious law in state law and looks to likely future developments. The work will be essential for those interested in the administration of justice and politics, for those professions where intercultural competence is required, and for interreligious dialogue.
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• Introduction / Rafael Domingo and John Witte, Jr.
• St. Paul and the moral law / C. Kavin Rowe
• Augustine and the common good / Josef Lössl
• Thomas Aquinas : definitions and vocabulary in his Treatise on law / Charles J. Reid Jr.
• Francisco de Vitoria and the global commonwealth / Andreas Wagner
• Francisco Suárez on the law of nations and just war / Henrik Lagerlund
• Alberico Gentili and the secularization of the law of nations / Rafael Domingo and Giovanni Minnucci
• Johannes Althusius and the universal rule of natural laws and rights / John Witte, Jr.
• Hugo Grotius and the making of modern natural law / Jon Miller
• Kant's Religion and perpetual peace / Lawrence Pasternack
• Jacques Maritain and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / William Sweet
• Robert Schuman and the process of European integration / Rafael Domingo
• Christianity and the global rule of law / Neil Walker
• Christianity and the principle of dignity / Martin Schlag
• Christianity and the principle of equality in global law / Julian Rivers
• Christianity and the principle of the common good / George Duke
• Christianity, sovereignty, and global law / Nicholas Aroney
• Christianity and the principle of solidarity / Ana Marta González
• Christianity and the principle of subsidiarity / Thomas C. Kohler
• Christianity and human rights / Samuel Moyn
• Christianity and the international economic order / Daniel A. Crane
• Christianity and a global law for migration / Silas W. Allard
• Christianity, global environmental protection, and animal law / Anne Peters and Mark Somos
• Christianity and the use of force : lex and pax christi / Mary Ellen O'Connell
• Christianity and international criminal law / Johan D. van der Vyver

This book explores both historical and contemporary Christian sources and dimensions of global law and includes critical perspectives from various religious and philosophical traditions. Two dozen leading scholars discuss the constituent principles of this new global legal order historically, comparatively, and currently. The first part uses a historical-biographical approach to study a few of the major Christian architects of global law and transnational legal theory, from St. Paul to Jacques Maritain. The second part distills the deep Christian sources and dimensions of the main principles of global law, historically and today, separating out the distinct Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian contributions as appropriate. Finally, the authors address a number of pressing global issues and challenges, where a Christian-informed legal perspective can and should have deep purchase and influence. The work makes no claim that Christianity is the only historical shaper of global law, nor that it should monopolize the theory and practice of global law today. But the book does insist that Christianity, as one of the world's great religions, has deep norms and practices, ideas and institutions, prophets and procedures that can be of benefit as the world struggles to find global legal resources to confront humanity's greatest challenges. The volume will be an essential resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of law and religion, transnational law, legal philosophy, and legal history.
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• List of Figures List of Tables CHAPTER ONE: Introduction CHAPTER TWO: International Law, Islamic Law, and Islamic Law States CHAPTER THREE: Islamic Law and International Law: Similarities and Differences CHAPTER FOUR: A Theory of Islamic Peaceful Resolution of Disputes CHAPTER FIVE: Islamic Law States and Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes CHAPTER SIX: Islamic Law States and the International Court of Justice CHAPTER SEVEN: Legal Schools and Regions CHAPTER EIGHT: Conclusion References Index.
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There are twenty-nine Islamic law states (ILS) in the world today, and their Muslim population is over 900 million. Muslims in these countries-and, to some extent, all Muslims-are ethically, morally, doctrinally, or politically committed to the Islamic legal tradition, a unique logic and culture of justice based on nonconfrontational dispute resolution. In Islamic Law and International Law, Emilia Justyna Powell examines the differences and similarities between the Islamic legal tradition and international law, focusing in particular on the issue of conflict management and resolution. In many Islamic Law States, Islamic law displaces secular law in state governance and shapes these countries' international dealings. Powell considers why some of Islamic Law States accept international courts while others avoid them, stressing throughout that we cannot make blanket claims about such states. Each relationship is context-specific, hinging on the nature of the domestic legal system. Moreover, not all of these states are Islamic to the same degree or in the same way. Secular law and religious law fuse in different ways in different domestic legal systems. Often, the Islamic legal tradition points in one direction, while the Western-based, secularized international law points in another. However, Powell argues that Islamic legal tradition contains elements that are compatible with modern international law. She marshals original data on the legal systems structures in thirty Islamic Law States over the entire course of the post-World War Two era, and she draws from in-depth interviews with Islamic law scholars and leading practitioners of international law, including judges of the International Court of Justice. Rich in empirical evidence, this book will reshape how we think about the relationship between ILS and the international system.
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• Introduction
• Creating a primary bond : what is betrothal?
• During betrothal : is premarital cohabitation an option?
• Creating a marital bond : can rape determine marital status?
• Breaking a marital bond : what do fornication and adultery do?
• Discussion and conclusions

Ephrem, one of the earliest Syriac Christian writers, lived on the eastern outskirts of the Roman Empire during the fourth century. Although he wrote polemical works against Jews and pagans, and identified with post-Nicene Christianity, his writings are also replete with parallels with Jewish traditions and he is the leading figure in an ongoing debate about the Jewish character of Syriac Christianity. This book focuses on early ideas about betrothal, marriage, and sexual relations, including their theological and legal implications, and positions Ephrem at a precise intersection between his Semitic origin and his Christian commitment. Alongside his adoption of customs and legal stances drawn from his Greco-Roman and Christian surroundings, Ephrem sometimes reveals unique legal concepts which are closer to early Palestinian, sectarian positions than to the Roman or Jewish worlds. The book therefore explains naturalistic legal thought in Christian literature and sheds light on the rise of Syriac Christianity.
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• Introduction: Islam and the global turn in the history of international law / Ignacio de la Rasilla
• The protean historical mirror of international law / Ignacio de la Rasilla
• How should international lawyers study Islamic law and its contribution to international law? / Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
• An exploration of the 'global' history of international law : some perspectives from within the Islamic legal traditions / Ayesha Shahid
• Subjectivity and structures : the challenges of methodology in the study of the history of international law and religion / John D. Haskell
• The basis of obligation in treaties of ancient cultures : pactum est servandum? / Robert Kolb
• Khadduri as gatekeeper of the Islamic law of nations? / Jean Allain
• In search of the lost influence : Islamic thinkers and the Spanish origins of international law / Ignacio Forcada Barona
• The other 'other' : Moors, international law and the origin of the colonial matrix / Pierre-Alexandre Cardinal and Frédéric Mégret
• Law, religion and power : texts and discourse of conquest / Luigi Nuzzo
• Land rights in nineteenth-century Ottoman state succession treaties / Ilias Bantekas
• The evolution of the personality of the Malay sultanate states / Haniff Ahamat and Nizamuddin Alias
• On the abodes of war and peace in the Islamic law of war : fact or fiction? / Matthias Vanhullebusch
• The origins and evolution of Islamic law of rebellion : its significance to the current international humanitarian law discourse / Mohamed Badar, Ahmed Al-Dawoody, and Noelle Higgins.

International Law and Islam: Historical Explorations offers a unique opportunity to examine the Islamic contribution to the development of international law in historical perspective. The role of Islam in its various intellectual, political and legal manifestations within the history of international law is part of the exciting intellectual renovation of international and global legal history in the dawn of the twenty-first century. The present volume is an invitation to engage with this thriving development after 'generations of prejudiced writing' regarding the notable contribution of Islam to international law and its history.
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• Introduction
• International law, Islamic law, and Islamic law states
• Islamic law and international law : similarities and differences
• A theory of Islamic peaceful resolution of disputes
• Islamic law states and peaceful Resolution of territorial disputes
• Islamic law states and the International Court of Justice
• Legal schools and regions
• Conclusion

There are twenty-nine Islamic law states (ILS) in the world today, and their Muslim population is over 900 million. Muslims in these countries-and, to some extent, all Muslims-are ethically, morally, doctrinally, or politically committed to the Islamic legal tradition, a unique logic and culture of justice based on nonconfrontational dispute resolution. In Islamic Law and International Law, Emilia Justyna Powell examines the differences and similarities between the Islamic legal tradition and international law, focusing in particular on the issue of conflict management and resolution. In many Islamic Law States, Islamic law displaces secular law in state governance and shapes these countries' international dealings. Powell considers why some of Islamic Law States accept international courts while others avoid them, stressing throughout that we cannot make blanket claims about such states. Each relationship is context-specific, hinging on the nature of the domestic legal system. Moreover, not all of these states are Islamic to the same degree or in the same way. Secular law and religious law fuse in different ways in different domestic legal systems. Often, the Islamic legal tradition points in one direction, while the Western-based, secularized international law points in another. However, Powell argues that Islamic legal tradition contains elements that are compatible with modern international law. She marshals original data on the legal systems structures in thirty Islamic Law States over the entire course of the post-World War Two era, and she draws from in-depth interviews with Islamic law scholars and leading practitioners of international law, including judges of the International Court of Justice. Rich in empirical evidence, this book will reshape how we think about the relationship between ILS and the international system.
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• List of Figures List of Tables CHAPTER ONE: Introduction CHAPTER TWO: International Law, Islamic Law, and Islamic Law States CHAPTER THREE: Islamic Law and International Law: Similarities and Differences CHAPTER FOUR: A Theory of Islamic Peaceful Resolution of Disputes CHAPTER FIVE: Islamic Law States and Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes CHAPTER SIX: Islamic Law States and the International Court of Justice CHAPTER SEVEN: Legal Schools and Regions CHAPTER EIGHT: Conclusion References Index.
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There are twenty-nine Islamic law states (ILS) in the world today, and their Muslim population is over 900 million. Muslims in these countries-and, to some extent, all Muslims-are ethically, morally, doctrinally, or politically committed to the Islamic legal tradition, a unique logic and culture of justice based on nonconfrontational dispute resolution. In Islamic Law and International Law, Emilia Justyna Powell examines the differences and similarities between the Islamic legal tradition and international law, focusing in particular on the issue of conflict management and resolution. In many Islamic Law States, Islamic law displaces secular law in state governance and shapes these countries' international dealings. Powell considers why some of Islamic Law States accept international courts while others avoid them, stressing throughout that we cannot make blanket claims about such states. Each relationship is context-specific, hinging on the nature of the domestic legal system. Moreover, not all of these states are Islamic to the same degree or in the same way. Secular law and religious law fuse in different ways in different domestic legal systems. Often, the Islamic legal tradition points in one direction, while the Western-based, secularized international law points in another. However, Powell argues that Islamic legal tradition contains elements that are compatible with modern international law. She marshals original data on the legal systems structures in thirty Islamic Law States over the entire course of the post-World War Two era, and she draws from in-depth interviews with Islamic law scholars and leading practitioners of international law, including judges of the International Court of Justice. Rich in empirical evidence, this book will reshape how we think about the relationship between ILS and the international system.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)