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Cleveland, Thomas Joseph. "The Accounts of the Origin of Law in Plato's Laws." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107217.
Full textThesis advisor: Nasser Behnegar
This dissertation presents the different accounts of the origin of law in Plato’s Laws and I seek to show how the question of the law’s origin relates to Plato’s political philosophy as a whole. For the early modern political philosophers, the concept of a pre-political “state of nature” plays a central role in their attempt to describe the sources and limits of legitimate political authority. The question of the origin and development of the city is given much less emphasis by the ancient philosophers and it is not clear how their opinions about this question relate to their understanding of politics. In Plato’s Laws, however, the question of whether law has a divine, natural, or conventional origin is at the center of the Athenian Stranger’s inquiry. I begin by arguing that the conventionalist view of law, religion, and morality as it is presented in Book X depends on a materialist natural science that the Athenian knows to be deficient. At the same time, the Athenian also knows that he does not possess demonstrative knowledge of the existence of providential gods. Because of his knowledge of his ignorance about these matters, he is compelled to consider the claim that certain laws have a divine origin. In order to evaluate these claims he turns the conversation toward the question of the purpose of law and shows that a divine law must be understood to perfect human beings by making them virtuous. I argue that the core of the Athenian’s confrontation with the claim that law has a divine origin is a dialectical inquiry into virtue and happiness. Although the Athenian does not carry out this inquiry in the conversation in the Laws itself, I argue that the results of such an inquiry are shown by his new beginning in Book III, which begins with the question of the origin of the regime. In Book III he breaks with the traditional claims about law’s divine origin and he offers his own account of the human origin of the city and its laws. Although the Athenian’s account is in some respects similar to that of the conventionalists, I argue that he departs from them in important respects due to his deeper understanding of the roots of our ignorance about the human good
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Political Science
Waloschek, Michael. "Functions of the Old Testament law." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
Full textWright, Paul A. "Law in the unity and progession of scripture." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBlosser, Daniel M. "An examination of dispensational views of the Mosaic law and grace." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1185.
Full textMontini-Coleman, James. "Theology and canon law the theory of Ladislas Orsy, S.J. /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0655.
Full textKim, Chul Hwan. "Law/gospel-oriented preaching in Martin Luther's theology of preaching." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textRapa, Robert Keith. "The meaning of "works of law" ('érgon nómou) in Galatians and Romans." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1988. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p019-0008.
Full textStambaugh, James. "The role of the law in the old and the new covenant." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
Full textVukosavović, Filip. "God as the founder of order [mēyšariym] in Ps 99:4 with reflection on Palladian Aides and other ANNE backgrounds /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
Full textGrant, Lloyd W. "The covenant relationship a step toward a hermeneutical-homiletical framework for legal literature /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
Full textGibbs, Gene. "What is new about the new covenant in two Pauline epistles." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
Full textVlachos, Chris Alex. "Law and sin an Edenic nexus? : a study with reference to 1 Corinthians 15:56 and the catalytic operation of the law /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p088-0157.
Full textPeterman, Gerald W. "Paul and the law in Romans 7:1-6." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
Full textRapa, Robert K. "The meaning of "works of law" ('érgon nómou) in Galatians and Romans." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
Full textGombis, Timothy G. ""Why the law then?" the Mosaic law and the New Testament believer in Galatians 3:19-4:7 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Full textNebeker, Gary Lynn. "The form and function of the Mosaic law in the epistle of James." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
Full textGilland, David Andrew. "The dialectic of law and gospel in Emil Brunner's earlier theology." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=202567.
Full textAlliet, Paul W. "James 1:25 and 2:12 the perfect law of liberty and the perfect liberty of the Christian /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
Full textKim, Changhoon. "An exegetical study of Deuteronomy 6:20-25 its contribution to the understanding and application of the law /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textYoshihira, Toshiyuki. "Not who would be cursed, but how the law functions Paul's grammatical-historical interpretation in Galatians 3:10 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Full textWijlens, Myriam. "Theology and canon law: The theories of Klaus Moersdorf and Eugenio Corecco." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7497.
Full textKim, Cheol Yoo. "Calvin's preaching of Old Testament law." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
Full textKang'ethe, Francis K. "The place of [nomos (transliterated word)] in Paul's theology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBuerger, John Martin. "The role of the law for the Christian Augustine and Calvin in dialogue /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1153.
Full textCox, Craig Arthur. "An evaluation of matrimonial trials of nullity a study in theology and law /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textYeardley, Nelson P. "An examination of the Pauline conception of "The law of Christ"." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLi, Ping-Kuen Eric. "The relationship of the Christian to the law as expressed in Romans 10:4." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLaloh, Irina S. "Righteousness in the concept of covenantal nomism : an exegetical study of the Psalms of Solomon and Paul's letters /." Murdoch University Digital Theses Program, 2009. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20100331.235037.
Full textDunn, Laura A. "The law in Hebrews and Paul a comparison of select passages in Hebrews and Galatians 3:19-25 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
Full textRobb, Angela M. "The relationship between a theological understanding of marital commitment and a juridical articulation of marital consent in sacramental marriages in the United States." Thesis, Duquesne University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3702629.
Full textSacramental marriage is an essential social, public, ecclesial, and theological good, yet its influence in the United States is threatened by a divorce rate comparable to the U.S. population in general, an explosive increase in cohabitation, and a declining marriage rate. The underlying assumption of this dissertation is that commitment and consent, more thoroughly understood and consistently lived, are essential to lifelong, faithful, and life-giving marriage that symbolizes and makes present Christ's indissoluble love for the church. Through an adapted use of Don Browning's fundamental practical theological method, this study begins with practical concerns regarding concrete marital and family practices in the United States and ends with practical means and strategies related to the pastoral care of sacramental marriages and all those in the stages of marriage preparation, aftercare, and sadly, family fragmentation. Within this theological method, canon law is considered an ecclesial science distinct from theology yet organically united to it in the church. Relying primarily on Ladislas Örsy's theory of the relationship between theology and canon law, I affirm that theology identifies, explains, and evaluates the values or goods of marriage through the movements of biblical, historical, systematic, and moral theology, whereas canon law produces norms, processes, and structures for the protection and promotion of those goods. In this view, theology judges canon law to determine the fittingness of canonical norms and structures for theological realities. Furthermore, canon law is a ministry that is both pastoral and juridical to ensure freedom and good order within the church. Canon law is part of the overall care of the faithful given that justice is the minimum demand of love. Consent creates marriage; therefore, an integral and in-depth understanding of consent in canon law in light of a theology of commitment is important in helping the church to appropriate the human and theological values of marriage.
Jarvis, Charles Everett. "Ethnographic interviews in the practical struggle between grace and law developing a ministry model /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLinton, Greg. "The ethical dimension of Jesus' view of the law in Luke the lawyer and the rich ruler /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
Full textKivotidis, Dimitrios. "The form and content of public law : from political theology to political economy." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2017. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/295/.
Full textMoosa, Ebrahim E. I. "The legal philosophy of al-Ghazali: law, language and theology in al-Mustasfa." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30559.
Full textPreston, Jim. "The relationship of law and grace in Romans 6 and 7." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p030-0171.
Full textLeFevre, Michael Clarence. "An analysis in theology and law an evaluation of canonical requirements for marriage preparation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
Full textJohnson, Roberts M. "Jesus' understanding of the law in Mark 2:23-28." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHaskell, John D. "Political theology : the Protestant influence on the development of contemporary international law and governance." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.758189.
Full textRosier, George K. "Romans 7:14-25." Portland, Or. : Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textWu, Huihua. "Lü fa yu en dian : lun Lujia ji Yesu yu Falisai ren chong tu zhi yi yi = Law and grace : the significance of the conflicts between Jesus and Pharisees in the gospel of Luke /." click here to view the abstract and table of contents, 1997. http://net3.hkbu.edu.hk/~libres/cgi-bin/thesisab.pl?pdf=b15646257a.pdf.
Full textOpderbeck, David. "The end of the law : human evolution, neurolaw, and the soul." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36118/.
Full textMuyebe, Stanslaus C. "The canon law framework for arbitration of delictual disputes in the Roman Catholic Church of South Africa : a critical and comparative study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50469.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: In his analysis of conflict resolution in the church sector, Professor Coertzsen (1998:69) points out that disputes occur also within the churches. While some of the disputes are purely doctrinal, others fall into the category of civil disputes. Professor Rik Torfs in an article (1998:27) observes that the Catholic Church is increasingly becoming a site of civil dispute. These include delict claims. Examples of these are: financial loss as a result of unfair suspension or dismissal from a clerical position; financial loss or loss of reputation resulting from unfair dismissal from a religious congregation; damage to a child or adult arising from being sexually abused by a priest or religious or lay person. When delictual disputes occur, state courts have civil jurisdiction over them. At the same time, the South African Arbitration Act 42 of 1965 allows the parties to a delictual dispute to arbitrate their case as an alternative to civil litigation. This trend is gaining currency in the post-apartheid South Africa. In principle, therefore, church members may refer their delictual disputes for arbitration, instead of entering into civil litigation. Church members, thus, have the choice to have their case arbitrated, and church leaders need to make it clear to members that they also have the right to bring their case to the state courts. This study highlights the need for the churches to have an office of contlict resolution. The office may then advise church members who have a delictual dispute on the options available to them. The office may have a list of lawyers (Christian lawyers) who are willing and able to arbitrate on matters referred to them by other Christians. When the parties decide to have their delictual case arbitrated by lawyers, the determination as to whether a person is legally liable for damage repair requires a legal framework. Unlike the situation in civil litigation, the parties who opt for arbitration have the freedom to decide on the legal framework that the arbitrator should use in determining liability. Catholic Church members who are parties to a dispute may, for example, jointly agree that the arbitrator employ the internal law of the Catholic Church, namely the canon law framework. This study envisages a situation where the parties have jointly agreed to the employment of canon law for the arbitration of their case. When the disputants and the arbitrators engage in discussion and decide on whether to use canon law, they need to ask themselves the following questions: (I) What principles and rules of law has canon law established for the determination of the issue at dispute? (2) How do the standards of justice in canon law differ from those in secular law? What provisions invoked by the arbitrators would result in gross injustice to the claimant? (3) If the provisions of canon law would result in gross injustice to the claimant, the church members who are parties to a dispute may choose to rectify and supersede the limitation inherent in canon law. The question arises: to what provisions in secular law are the arbitrators and Church members able to resort to compensate for the limitations of canon law? (4) How do the standards of justice in canon law differ from Biblical standards? To what biblical messages might the arbitrators and the church members resort to overcome the limitations in canon law? While recognising the value of the fourth question, this study limits itself to the first three. It is hoped that future studies will address the fourth question. The present study attempts to answer the first three questions by means of a critical comparative analysis of the framework that canon law has established for determining the various possible issues at dispute. In the study it is argued that the employment by an arbitrator of some of the provisions in canon law would result in gross injustice. The disputants need to take note of these before they mandate the arbitrator to apply canon law in their case.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In sy analise van kontlikoplossing in die kerk, wys professor Coertzen (1998:69) daarop dat geskilpunte ook binne kerke plaasvind. Terwyl sommige hiervan suiwer leerstellig is, ressorteer ander onder die kategorie van siviele dispute. In 'n artikel verwys Professor Rik Torfs (1998:27) daarna dat die Katolieke Kerk toenemend 'n plek van siviele dispuut word. Hieronder word onregmatige eise ingesluit . Voorbeelde hiervan sluit in: finansiele verlies as gevolg van onregverdige skorsing of afdanking van 'n geestelike pos; finansiele verlies of verlies aan reputasie wat spruit uit onregverdige ontslag van 'n godsdienstige gemeente; skade aan 'n kind of volwassene wat spruit uit seksuele mishandeling deur 'n priester, 'n godsdienstige of leke persoon. Wanneer onregmatige dispute plaasvind, het staatshowe siviele jurisdiksie daaroor. Terselfdertyd laat die Suid-Afrikaanse Arbitrasie Wet 42 van 1965 toe dat partye tot 'n onregmatige dispuut hul saak kan laat arbitreer as 'n alternatief tot siviele litigasie. In Suid- Afrika het hierdie neiging toegeneem in die postapartheid era. Ous, in prinsiep, mag kerklidmate hul onregmatige dispute verwys vir arbitrasie, in plaas daarvan om hul te wend tot siviele litigasie. Ous het kerklidmate die keuse om hul sake te laat arbitreer, en kerk leiers moet dit aan lidmate duidelik stel dat hulle ook die reg het om hul sake na die staaathowe te neern. Hierdie studie bring die noodsaaklikheid na yore die vir kerke om 'n kantoor te he vir kontlikbeslegting. Die kantoor mag dan kerklidmate wat 'n onregmatige dispuut het adviseer aangaande die alternatiewe wat vir hulle beskikbaar is. Die kantoor mag 'n lys hou van Christel ike prokureurs wat gewillig en bevoeg is om te arbitreer 001' sake wat deur ander Christene na hulle verwys word. Wanneer die partye besluit om hul onregmatige saak deur prokureurs te laat arbitreer, het die vasstelling of 'n persoon wetlik aanspreeklik is vir reparasie van skade 'n wetlike raamwerk. Anders as in die geval van siviele litigasie, het die partye wat besluit op arbitrasie die keuse om te besluit watter wetlike raamwerk die arbiter rnoet gebruik om aanspreeklikheid vas te stel. Lidmate van die Katolieke Kerk, wat partye tot 'n dispuut is, mag, by voorbeeld, gesamentlik besluit dat die arbiter die interne reg van die Katolieke Kerk gebruik, naamlik die kanonieke regsraamwerk. Hierdie studie beoog 'n situasie waar die partye gesamentlik besluit het om die kanonieke reg vir die arbitrasie van hul saak te gebruik. Wanneer die disputante en die arbiters in gesprek tree en besluit of die kanonieke reg gebruik sal word, moet hulle hulself die volgende vrae afvra: (I) Watter prinsiepe en reels van die reg het die kanonieke reg ingestel om die saak van dispuut wat ter sprake is, te bepaal? (2) Hoe verskil die standaarde van die reg in kanonieke reg van die in burgeri ike reg? Watter voorsienings ingestel deur die arbiters sou uitvloei in erge onreg aan die eiser? (3) As die voorsienings van die kanonieke reg sou lei tot erge onreg aan die eiser, mag die kerklidmate, wat partye tot die dispuut is, kies om in die kanonieke reg die beperkings reg te stel en te vervang. Die vraag ontstaan: na watter voorsienings in die kerklike reg kan die arbiters en kerklidmate verwys om te vergoed vir die beperkinge van die kanonieke reg? (4) Hoe verskil die standaarde van die reg in kanonieke reg van die bybelse standaarde? Na watter bybelse boodskappe mag die arbiters en die kerklidmate verwys om die beperkinge in die kanonieke reg te oorkom? Terwyl die waarde van die vierde vraag erken word, word hierdie studie beperk tot die eerste drie. Daar word gehoop dat toekomstige studies die vierde vraag sal aanspreek. Die huidige studie poog om die eerste drie vrae te beantwoord deur middel van 'n krities-vergelykende analise van die raamwerk wat die kanonieke reg ingestel het 0111 verskeie rnoontlike sake van dispuut vas te stel. In hierdie studie word aangevoer dat die indiensneming deur 'n arbiter van sommige van die voorsienings van kanonieke reg sou kon lei tot erge onreg. Die disputante moet kennis neem hiervan voordat hulle die arbiter die mandaat gee om die kanonieke reg in hul geval toe te pas.
Whiting, Michael. "Luther in English : law and gospel in the theology of early English evangelicals (1525-1535)." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683238.
Full textCord, Neto Germano. "A Hermeneutic Approach to Natural Law: theological moral reasoning and the contribution of the natural sciences." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1850.
Full textI have titled this thesis “A hermeneutical approach to natural law,” and I want to investigate the making of moral theology in accounting for the contributions of the natural sciences. Thinking in terms of the theological and scientific discourses, one realizes that both render distinct interpretations of nature, and natural law arguments emerge from these interpretations in the sphere of ethics. Thus, a hermeneutics of the scientific activity and of moral reasoning delineates a major field of the dialogue between faith and reason
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
Alder, Jeremy T. "The relationship between faith and works a comparison of James 2:24 and Ephesians 2:8-10 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p083-0023.
Full textHodge, Steven R. "An exegetical response to Bahnsen's use of Matt 5:17-19 in Theonomy in Christian ethics." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
Full textIshikawa, Kazuo. "A study of Galatians 3:10-14." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
Full textStadler, Spencer R. "The hope of a new obedience in Paul." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textDarcy, Catherine C. "The right to spiritual assistance analysis and implementation of canon 213 of the 1983 Code of canon law /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textWeisbeck, Fredrick Allan. "Canon 517 [par.] 2 and the diocesan guidelines of the Diocese of Prince George." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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