{"product_id":"christianity-and-constitutionalism-9780197587263","title":"Christianity and Constitutionalism","description":"\u003cem\u003eChristianity and Constitutionalism\u003c\/em\u003e offers innovative and thoughtful analyses of the relationship between religious thought and constitutional law. Part I features contributions from historians, recounting how the relationship between the Christian faith and fundamental ideas about law, justice, and government has evolved from era to era. Part II provides analyses from constitutional lawyers on the normative implications of Christianity for particular themes in constitutional law, including sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy, the separation of powers, human rights, conscience, and federalism. Part III rounds out the study with theologians focused on particular Christian doctrines, exploring their constructive and sometimes critical implications for constitutionalism. As a whole, \u003cem\u003eChristianity and Constitutionalism\u003c\/em\u003e breaks new ground by offering wide-ranging, interdisciplinary contributions to the study of the relationship between the Christian religion and constitutional law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicholas Aroney\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Queensland and Affiliated Faculty of the Centre for Law and Religion at Emory University. He has a law degree from the University of Queensland, a PhD from Monash University and has held visiting positions at Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Edinburgh, Sydney, Emory and Tilburg universities. He is the author of over 150 articles, book chapters and books on constitutional law, comparative federalism, law and religion, and religious freedom, including \u003cem\u003eThe Constitution of a Federal Commonwealth: The Making and Meaning of the Australian Constitution\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), \u003cem\u003eShari'a in the West \u003c\/em\u003e(OUP, 2010) and \u003cem\u003eThe Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia: History, Principle and Interpretation\u003c\/em\u003e (2015). In 2010 he also received of a prestigious four-year Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council to study comparative federalism. In 2017-18 he was appointed to the Australian Prime Minister's Expert Panel on Religious Freedom which submitted its report in May 2018. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIan Leigh\u003c\/strong\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Law at Durham University. He has held visiting positions at Osgoode Hall Law School and the universities of Otago, Florida, Virginia and Melbourne. He is author of around 100 articles, book chapters and books on public law and human rights including \u003cem\u003eIn From the Cold: National Security and Parliamentary Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 1994), with Laurence Lustgarten, \u003cem\u003eLaw Politics and Local Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2000), \u003cem\u003eMaking Rights Real: the Human Rights Act in its First Decade\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) with Roger Masterman, and \u003cem\u003eReligious Freedom in the Liberal State\u003c\/em\u003e (2nd ed, OUP, 2013), with Rex Ahdar. He is currently a British Academy Wolfson Research Professor working on a funded study 'Freedom of Conscience: Emerging Challenges and Future Prospects'. \u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 INTRODUCTION: Christianity and Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: The Historical Influence of Christianity\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e2 OLD TESTAMENT: Torah and Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Burnside \u003cbr\u003e3 NEW TESTAMENT: \"But our constitution is in heaven\" New Testament sketches on the people of God between divine law and earthly rulers\u003cbr\u003eDorothea H. Bertschmann \u003cbr\u003e4 ANTIQUITY: Constantine and Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003ePeter Leithart \u003cbr\u003e5 PATRISTIC ERA: Augustine's Constitutionalism: Citizenship, Common Good, and Consent\u003cbr\u003eMary Keys \u0026amp; Colleen Mitchell \u003cbr\u003e6 MIDDLE AGES: Canon Law Constitutionalism?\u003cbr\u003eRichard Helmholz \u003cbr\u003e7 REFORMATION: The Protestant Reformation of Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003eJohn Witte Jr.\u003cbr\u003e8 MODERNITY: Understanding Law and Constitutionalism in Modernity: The Critical Contribution of English Reformation Public Theology\u003cbr\u003eJoan Lockwood O'Donovan \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Christian Perspectives on Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 SOVEREIGNTY: Dual, Plural and One\u003cbr\u003eJoel Harrison\u003cbr\u003e10 RULE OF LAW: The Sacred Roots and Secular Shoots of the Supreme Law\u003cbr\u003eLi-ann Thio\u003cbr\u003e11 DEMOCRACY: Self-Government and the Kingdom of Heaven\u003cbr\u003eRichard Ekins \u003cbr\u003e12 SEPARATION OF POWERS: Biblical Foundations of the Separation of Powers and the Catalytical Judicial Role\u003cbr\u003eCarlos Bernal \u003cbr\u003e13 RIGHTS: Christian Constitutional Rights?\u003cbr\u003eJulian Rivers \u003cbr\u003e14 FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE: Freedom of Conscience Assessing the Christian Contribution\u003cbr\u003eIan Leigh \u003cbr\u003e15 FEDERALISM: A Legal, Political and Religious Archaeology\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Aroney \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: Christian Theology and Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16 REVELATION: Scripture and Covenant\u003cbr\u003eDavid VanDrunen \u003cbr\u003e17 TRINITY: Against Leviathan: The Implications of Trinitarian Theology for Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003eDavid McIlroy \u003cbr\u003e18 JUSTICE: Justice the Constitution and the Purpose of the Political Community\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Chaplin \u003cbr\u003e19 CHRISTOLOGY: Christology and Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003eTracey Rowland \u003cbr\u003e20 NATURAL LAW: Natural Law and Natural Right Revisited\u003cbr\u003eJohn Milbank \u003cbr\u003e21 SUBSIDIARITY: Origins and Contemporary Aspects\u003cbr\u003eIain T. Benson\u003cbr\u003e22 ESCHATOLOGY: The Greater Operation of Liberty\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Farrow\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50486111207698,"sku":"9780197587263","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e3eb6ac9-89b7-45fb-b169-55371e1d505c.jpg?v=1730419590","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/christianity-and-constitutionalism-9780197587263","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}