Christianity and the laws of conscience: an introduction
Introduction / Helen M. Alvaré and Jeffrey B. Hammond -- New Testament on Conscience / 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. -...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Christianity and the laws of conscience] (2022) (Carmella, Angela C.)
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| Series/Journal: | Law and Christianity
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Philosophy of law
/ Christianity
/ Conscience
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Freedom or religion (United States) B Conscience Religious aspects (Christianity) B Liberty of conscience Philosophy B Freedom Of Religion (United States) |
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| Summary: | Introduction / Helen M. Alvaré and Jeffrey B. Hammond -- New Testament on Conscience / 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 -- 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 -- Applied Topics in Law and Conscience -- Liberty of Conscience, Free Exercise of Religion, and the U.S. Constitution / Nathan S. Chapman -- Religious Conscience Protections in American State Constitutions / Michael J. DeBoer -- Forced Conformity or Accommodation? : How to Reconcile Conscience -- and Difference in a Pluralistic Democracy / Mark Rienzi -- Christian Conscience and Sexual Expression Rights / Helen M. Alvaré -- Conscience and War / Joseph Capizzi -- Institutional Conscience, Corporate Persons, and Hobby Lobby / Christopher Tollefsen -- Religion, Conscience, and the Law : Reasons, Bases, and Limits for -- Exemptions / R. Kent Greenawalt "A broad array of Christians has wrestled with the subject of conscience from the beginnings of Christianity to the present time. Remarkably - given their differing nationalities, historical circumstances, and religious convictions -leading thinkers have regularly pursued similar questions about conscience. Sometimes they have reached overlapping conclusions. Often, however, concerning both large and small matters, they arrive at different or even radically different answers. But the persistence and correspondence of their inquiries remains a testament to the innate and universal importance of the matter of conscience"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1108835384 |