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This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. It 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. It explores how such thinkers as Augustine, Aquinas and Calvin utilised love in their legal thought.
List of contents
Foreword - John Witte Jr.
List of contributors
Introduction
ZACHARY R. CALO, JOSHUA NEOH, AND A. KEITH THOMPSON
PART I Law and Love in Augustine, Calvin, and Luther?
1 John Calvin on the Law of Love
CONSTANCE YOUNGWON LEE
2 "To Heal the Wounds of Sinners": Law, Love, and Forgiveness
ZACHARY R. CALO
3 Why Secularism Is No Option for a Christian Citizen: Augustine's Analysis of Love in the City
RENÉE KÖHLER-RYAN
4 Why Lutheranism Is No Option for a Meaningful Jurisprudence of Love
AUGUSTO ZIMMERMANN
PART II Law, Love, and Political Theology
5 Law and Love in Monasticism
JOSHUA NEOH
6 The Law of Love as Principles of Civility: Secular Translation or Religious Contribution?
ALEX DEAGON
7 The Loving Sword: The Implications of Divine Simplicity for Civil Law
BENJAMIN B. SAUNDERS
8 Aquinas on Love, Law, and Happiness: The Interconnection between Divine Law, Human Law, and Rational Love
STEFANUS HENDRIANTO SJ
PART III The Ethics of Law and Love
9 From Alterity to Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas on the Natural Law of Love
JONATHAN CROWE
10 "Proving Contraries": Joseph Smith on Law and Love
DONLU THAYER
11 From Coercion to Covenant: What Kind of Higher Law Did Jesus Have in Mind?
A KEITH THOMPSON
12 The Forgiveness of Love in Charity: Getting Conversationally Opened Up
PATRICK MCKINLEY BRENNAN
Index
About the author
Zachary R. Calo is Professor of Law at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar. He is also Professor of Law (Adj.) at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Visiting Professor at The Open University (UK), Visiting Professor at Tashkent State University of Law (Uzbekistan), and Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University, Qatar, as well as Research Scholar in Law and Religion at Valparaiso University and Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.
Joshua Neoh is Associate Professor of Law at the Australian National University (ANU), Australia.
A. Keith Thompson is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), Australia.
Summary
This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. It 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. It explores how such thinkers as Augustine, Aquinas and Calvin utilised love in their legal thought.
