Rogers Aquinas and the Supreme Court

Biblical Narratives of Jews, Gentiles and Gender
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-39715-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Challenges in Contemporary Theology

This new work clarifies Aquinas' concept of natural lawthrough his biblical commentaries, and explores its applications toU.S. constitutional law.
* The first time the use of Aquinas on the U.S. Supreme Court hasbeen explored in depth, and its applications tested through arigorous reading of the biblical commentaries
* Shows how key judgments in the Supreme Court have rested onmedieval natural law, and applies critical gender theory to discussproblems with these applications
* Offers new research data to give a different picture of Aquinasand natural law, and a fresh take on Aquinas' biblicalcommentaries
* New research based on passages in the biblical commentariesnever before available in English

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rogers, Eugene F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi
Bibliographic Note xiv
List of Abbreviations xvii
1 Aquinas on the Supreme Court - and on the Bible, or Howto Read This Book 1
Part I Aquinas on the Failure of Natural Law 23
2 What Aquinas Thinks We Cannot Know 25
3 How God Moves Creatures: For and Against Natural Law 63
4 How Aquinas Reads Scripture 97
5 How the Law of Nature Is a Character in Decline 118
6 How the Narrative Sexualizes Nature's Decline 147
Part II Aquinas on the Redemption of Natural Law 177
7 How Aquinas Gets Nature and Grace Back Together Again: AquinasMeets Karl Barth 179
8 How Faith and Reason Follow Glory 215
9 How Aquinas Makes Nature Dynamic All the Way Down: AquinasMeets Judith Butler 232
10 How the Spirit Moves the Law 247
11 How Natural Science Becomes a Form of Prayer 265
12 How the Semen of the Spirit Genders the Gentiles: RereadingRomans 289
Conclusion: Questions Answered and Unanswered 298
Subject Index 305
Index of Thomistic Citations 313

Über Autor(innen)

Eugene F. Rogers is Professor of Religious Studies andFaculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University ofNorth Carolina at Greensboro. He has taught at Princeton, Yale,Shaw University Divinity School, among others, and has heldnumerous fellowships. He is author or editor of five booksand many articles and translations. In 2010, ChristianCentury named his book Sexuality and the Christian Bodyamong "essential reading" published in the past 25years.