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- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- “clean text”
- Pages
- 384
- Publication Date
- 2010-10-21
- Book Title
- Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Eerdmans Publishing Company, William B.
ISBN-10
0802865631
ISBN-13
9780802865632
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92424569
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Ministers of the Law : a Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Natural Law, General, Religion, Politics & State
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Religion
Series
Emory University Studies in Law and Religion Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2010-022387
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Ministers of the Law is a stunning and compelling argument for the importance of the history of Western legal thought for the jurisprudence of political authority. Jean Porter demonstrates with impressive learning that European jurists before the age of legal positivism had placed clear and absolute boundaries on the authority and power of rulers and magistrates. These boundaries were defined by the rights of human beings that transcended the 'rule of law' and constitutions. This book should be required reading for every American constitutional scholar and, in particular, every American Supreme Court justice." -- Kenneth Pennington Catholic University of America "In this book Jean Porter uses the formidable fruits of her decades-long study of natural law to construct a thorough, theological account of a vital, though much disparaged, element of human flourishing: authority -- natural, political, and legal. Conversing with contemporary legal philosophy and political theology, Porter argues boldly that positive law, national and international, possesses an authority that may trump anti-terrorist expedients and even general humanitarian considerations. Fluently written, methodically clear, and analytically satisfying, Ministers of the Law deploys a Christian ethic of unusual philosophical sophistication to enlighten issues of great public importance." -- Nigel Biggar University of Oxford "A major contribution to modern debates on the grounding of law. The author presents an original account of natural law as a 'basis of legitimation' that can validate a variety of political systems and structures of positive law." -- Brian Tierney Cornell University "Jean Porter accomplishes a most unusual thing. She illuminates and at the same time renders subtle in every hue and shade a most difficult set of questions on natural law. I could not stop reading, and in some places disagreeing with, this splendid work. I think it is her best yet." -- Russell Hittinger University of Tulsa
Dewey Decimal
261.5
Synopsis
In Ministers of the Law Jean Porter articulates a theory of legal authority derived from the natural law tradition. As she points out, the legal authority of most traditions rests on their own internal structures, independent of extralegal considerations -- legal houses built on sand, as it were. Natural law tradition, on the other hand, offers a basis for legal authority that goes beyond mere arbitrary commands or social conventions, offering some extralegal authority without compromising the independence and integrity of the law. Yet Porter does more in this volume than simply discuss historical and theoretical realms of natural law. She carries the theory into application to contemporary legal issues, bringing objective normative structures to contemporary Western societies suspicious of such concepts., Jean Porter is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her other books include Natural and Divine Law and Nature as Reason., "Ministers of the Law is an argument for the importance of the history of Western legal thought for the jurisprudence of political authority. Jean Porter demonstrates that European jurists before the age of legal positivism had placed clear and absolute boundaries on the authority and power of rulers and magistrates. These boundaries were defined by the rights of human beings that transcended the 'rule of law' and constitutions.-Kenneth Pennington Catholic University of AmericaThis book is a theological account of a vital element of human flourishing: authority-natural, political, and legal. Porter argues that positive law, national and international, possesses an authority that may trump anti-terrorist expedients and even general humanitarian considerations.-Nigel Biggar University of OxfordThe author presents an original account of natural law as a 'basis of legitimization' that can validate a variety of political systems and structures of positive law."-Brian Tierney Cornell University, Ministers of the Law is an argument for the importance of the history of Western legal thought for the jurisprudence of political authority. Jean Porter demonstrates that European jurists before the age of legal positivism had placed clear and absolute boundaries on the authority and power of rulers and magistrates. These boundaries were defined b|9780802865632|
LC Classification Number
BR115.L28P67 2010
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