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Teachings of Modern Orthodox Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature

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ISBN-10: 023114265X

ISBN-13: 9780231142656

Edition: 2007

Authors: John Witte Jr., Frank Alexander, Paul Valliere, John Witte Jr.

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The Teachings of Modern Orthodox Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Natureexamines how modern Orthodox Christian thinkers have answered the most pressing political, legal, and ethical questions of our time. It discusses the enduring teachings of important Orthodox Christian intellectuals of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Leading contemporary scholars analyze these thinkers' views on the nature and purpose of law and authority, the limits of rule and obedience, the care of the needy and innocent, the ethics of war and violence, and the separation of church and state, among other themes. A diverse and powerful portrait of Orthodox Christian legal and political thought,…    
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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 8/7/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.86" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

John Witte Jr. is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and co-director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He has published numerous volumes, including Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation.Frank S. Alexander is interim dean and professor at the Emory School of Law. He is the founder and co-director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.

John Witte Jr. is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He has published 120 articles and 20 books, including Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformationand The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism.Frank S. Alexander is Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He has published a dozen volumes, including The Weightier Matters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Introduction to the Modern Orthodox Tradition
Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900)
Commentary
Original Source Materials
Author's Preface to The Spiritual Foundations of Life
Law and Morality: Essays in Applied Ethics
Russia and the Universal Church
The Justification of the Good
Nicholas Berdyaev (1874-1948)
Commentary
Original Source Materials
On the Nature and Value of Personality
Personalism v. Egoism
Personality and the Andric Existence
Personality and Communion
Christianity and Redemption
The Fall: The Origin of Good and Evil
God Is Beyond Good and Evil
Freedom, Free Will, and Values
Three Types of Ethics
The Ethics of Law
The Ethics of Redemption
The Ethics of Creativeness
Creativeness and Imagination
Creativeness and Beauty
Creativeness and the Kingdom of Heaven
Vladimir Nikolaievich Lossky (1903-1958)
Commentary
Original Source Materials
Sept jours sur les routes de France (Seven Days on the Roads of France)
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church
The Way of Union
Redemption and Deification
The Temptations of Ecclesial Consciousness
Tradition and Traditions
Dominion and Kingship: An Eschatological Study
The Theological Notion of the Human Person
Catholic Consciousness
Orthodox Theology: An Introduction
Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945)
Commentary
Original Source Materials
The Second Gospel Commandment
On the Imitation of the Mother of God
The Mysticism of Human Communion
The Cross and the Hammer-and-Sickle
Towards a New Monasticism
The Poor in Spirit
A Justification of Pharasaism
Insight in Wartime
Types of Religious Life
Dumitru Staniloae (1903-1993)
Commentary
Original Source Materials
Natural Revelation
The Orthodox Doctrine of Salvation
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Providence and the Deification of the World
Seven Mornings with Father Staniloae
The Moral Aspect of Nationalism
The Permanent National Ideal
Brief Theological Interpretation of the Nation
Copyright Information
Index to Biblical Citations
General Index