Justice in Love

Justice in Love
Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0802872948

Love and Joy

Love and Joy
Author: Yochanan Muffs
Publisher: Belknap Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1995-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780674539327

Studying the interplay of figurative language, law, and religious thought, Yochanan Muffs brings us a new understanding of both the Bible and ancient Near Eastern cultures. This first single-volume collection of the pivotal writings of this great religious humanist includes his studies of love and joy as metaphors, the laws of war in ancient Israel, the figurative nature of legal language, the role of the prophet and prophetic speech, and the expressions of belonging which united a culture.

Law, Love and Freedom

Law, Love and Freedom
Author: Joshua Neoh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2019-07-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108427650

Moving from monasticism to constitutionalism, and from antinomianism to anarchism, this book reveals law's connection with love and freedom.

Love the Sin

Love the Sin
Author: Janet R. Jakobsen
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2003-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814742645

A timely study of the troubling links between religion, morality, and sex and the tendancies of secular institutions to use religion to regulate sexual life.

Christianity and Law

Christianity and Law
Author: John Witte, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-04-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521697491

What impact has Christianity had on the law from its beginnings to the present day? This introduction explores the main legal teachings of Western Christianity, set out in the texts and traditions of scripture and theology, philosophy and jurisprudence. It takes up the weightier matters of the law that Christianity has profoundly shaped - justice and mercy, rule and equity, discipline and love - as well as more technical topics of canon law, natural law, and state law. Some of these legal creations were wholly original to Christianity. Others were converted from Jewish and classical traditions. Still others were reformed by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophers. But whether original or reformed, these Christian teachings on law, politics and society have made and can continue to make fundamental contributions to modern law in the West and beyond.

Law, Religion, and Health in the United States

Law, Religion, and Health in the United States
Author: Holly Fernandez Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107164885

This book explores the critical role of law in protecting - and protecting against - religious beliefs in American health care.

Law, Religion and Love

Law, Religion and Love
Author: Paul Babie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134851227

Increasingly, the modern neo-liberal world marginalises any notion of religion or spirituality, leaving little or no room for the sacred in the public sphere. While this process advances, the conservative and harmful behaviours associated with some religions and their adherents exacerbate this marginalisation by driving out those who remain religious or spiritual. And all of this is seen through the lens of social science, which seems to agree that religion remains important, if not in spiritual sense, at least as a source of folklore and a means of identification: religions remain rooted in the societies from which they emerged, and the legal systems of many of those societies emerged from religious sources, even if those societies remain unwilling to admit that fact. In the modern materialistic world of conformity, religion is less a source of guidance than a label of identification. The world therefore faces two issues. First, the decreasing level of spirituality in the ‘West’ widens the gap between worshippers and those who have left their faith (eg agnostics and atheists, or those who look at religion as a matter of ‘picking and choosing’ from a range of options). And, second, the strong connections to religion which remain in many nations, but which are often misused in the secular public sphere (both in the West and internationally). In such divided worlds, both religious and secular forces tend to lock themselves into closed groupings of ‘pure truth’ and in so doing increase the level of disagreement, in turn producing radicalism. In short, the modern world is divided in two ways: between religious and non-religious (although some have argued that the non-religious secular is itself a form of civil religion), and between those subscribing to divergent understandings of the same religious tradition. While hyperbolic and histrionic, the term ‘culture wars’ nonetheless best captures what we see happening in the public sphere today. The question emerges, then: how best to accommodate the democratic principle which posits that the majority should feel that it lives in a society of its own with the human rights principle, holding that is necessary to ensure the full protection of the minority’s rights? How to balance these seemingly opposed principles? We are very familiar with the differences that appear between secular and sacred in the modern world; yet, what of the similarities amongst scriptures and laws which seek to encourage mutual understanding, cooperation and even cohabitation? Because religion itself is a source of law, a set of exhortations or commands as much as a set of rights, every major religion offers an approach to encountering ‘the Other’ in a positive, constructive, affirming way; and it is here that religions reveal much that they have in common. This book draws together the work of scholars engaged in exploring the possibilities for a ‘utopian’ world in the sense fostered by St Thomas More. The essays explore those dimensions of religious and civil law where ‘love’ – however that is defined by relevant texts – fosters and encourages acceptance of ‘the Other’ and will offer perspectives on the ways in which religious or civil/state law command one to act in the spirit of ‘love’.

Tax Law, Religion, and Justice

Tax Law, Religion, and Justice
Author: Allen Calhoun
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-03-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000356531

This book asks why tax policy is both attracted to and repelled by the idea of justice. Accepting the invitation of economist Henry Simons to acknowledge that tax justice is a theological concept, the work explores theological doctrines of taxation to answer the presenting question. The overall message of the book is that taxation is an instrument of justice, but only when taxes take into account multiple goods in society: the requirements of the government, the property rights of society’s members, and the material needs of the poor. It is argued that this answer to the presenting question is a theological and ethical answer in that it derives from the insistence of Christian thinkers that tax policy take into account material human need (necessitas). Without the necessitas component of the tax balance, tax systems end up honoring only one of the three components of the tax equation and cease to reflect a coherent idea of justice. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of tax law, economics, theology, and history.

The Law of Love

The Law of Love
Author: Vicent Guillem
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2015-06-24
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1326325167

The content of this book is a message of love for you. My wish is that it serves you to know better your feelings, allowing you to distinguish the feelings of true love from those forms of selfishness which imitate love but are not really. So seek to feed the first ones and remove the second ones, because this is the only way to become happy. I hope that after reading this book it is clear to you that you have a fundamental right that you must not let anyone violate, and this is the right to the freedom of feeling. With all my love, for you. Official web page http: //thespirituallaws.blogspot.com.es/