Law, Love and Freedom - From the Sacred to the Secular

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

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Cosmological beginning, eschatological end; 2. Conceptual bipolarities; 3. Methodological turn to historical narrative; 4. Prior narrative: from monasticism to constitutionalism; 5. Counter narrative: from antinomianism to anarchism; 6. Value pluralism and the search for coherence; Conclusion.

About the author

Joshua Neoh is a tenured faculty member at the law school of the Australian National University, Canberra (ANU). He completed his LL.B. at the ANU, LL.M. at Yale University, Connecticut, and Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, and held visiting research positions at Harvard University and the University of Oxford. He is committed to an interdisciplinary study of law, and he has published in the fields of law and religion, law and literature, law and culture, law and philosophy, and law and the humanities.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Neoh, Joshua (Australian National University Neoh, Neoh Joshua
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781108427654
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42765-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Law and Christianity; Law and Christianity
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; LAW / Jurisprudence, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Religious issues & debates, Religious issues and debates, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law