Religious Freedom and the Ethos of Democracy in Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde - Discussed: Religion, Law, and Democracy: Selected Writings. By Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde. Edited by Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein. Translated by Thomas Dunlap. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 480. $ 65.00 (cloth); Oxford Scholarship Online by subscription (digital). ISBN: 9780198818632. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198818632.001.0001
According to Böckenförde's interpretation in his famous essay "The Rise of the State as a Process of Secularization" (1967), in the formation of modern statehood religious freedom and, more generally, freedom of conscience played a central role. It was "for love of such freedom&q...
| Published in: | Journal of law and religion |
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| Subtitles: | "Book Review Symposium: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Religion, Law, and Democracy" |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Journal of law and religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Common Good
B ethos of democracy B Book review B Dignitatis Humanae B Natural Law B Religious Freedom |
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| Summary: | According to Böckenförde's interpretation in his famous essay "The Rise of the State as a Process of Secularization" (1967), in the formation of modern statehood religious freedom and, more generally, freedom of conscience played a central role. It was "for love of such freedom" that the modern state set inviolable limits on the exercise of its own coercive force vis-à-vis citizens relying on its protection. Nobody may be forced through the coercive tools of political power to hold true something that they do not believe. This dynamic of freedom is further taken up in Böckenförde's analysis of church history and theological traditions, as this essay demonstrates. The conception of religious freedom as a right of the human person, contained in the Second Vatican Council declaration Dignitatis Humanae, is a real "Copernican turn." It represents a true revolution in Catholic interpretation of democracy, public ethos, and natural law, which aims at reconciling modern freedom, democracy, and religion through a revised doctrine of the common good. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2022.41 |