Law, Love and Freedom
From the Sacred to the Secular
法律、爱情和自由：从神圣到世俗

Joshua Neoh, Australian National University, Canberra
9781108427654|Hardback| USD 110
225PP
Law and Christianity
 
图书简介：
一个人如何能过上充满法律、爱情和自由的生活？这一问题在犹太教和基督教传统中有着深刻的根源。事实上，对这一问题的不同答案标志着从犹太教到基督教的过渡。本书追根溯源，讲述了这些思想在从神圣转向世俗过程中所经历的曲折。它将我们最重要的社会组织模式-法律，与我们最珍视的两个价值观-爱和自由联系在一起。在这本书中，Joshua Neoh对作为我们的现代法律秩序基础的道德观进行了阐述，并对我们的世俗法律观念（宪政主义与无政府主义）的神学起源（修道主义与反律法主义）进行了追溯。《法律、爱情和自由》中汇集了各种各样的角色，包括保罗和路德、奥古斯丁和阿奎那、僧侣和诺斯替教徒，以及宪政主义者和无政府主义者。本书对于任何将法律视为一门人文学科且对其感兴趣的律师、哲学家、神学家和历史学家都很有价值。
 
How does one lead a life of law, love, and freedom? This inquiry has very deep roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Indeed, the divergent answers to this inquiry mark the transition from Judeo to Christian. This book returns to those roots to trace the twists and turns that these ideas have taken as they move from the sacred to the secular. It relates our most important mode of social organization, law, to two of our most cherished values, love and freedom. In this book, Joshua Neoh sketches the moral vision that underlies our modern legal order and traces our secular legal ideas (constitutionalism versus anarchism) to their theological origins (monasticism versus antinomianism). Law, Love, and Freedom brings together a diverse cast of characters, including Paul and Luther, Augustine and Aquinas, monks and Gnostics, and constitutionalists and anarchists. This book is valuable to any lawyers, philosophers, theologians and historians, who are interested in law as a humanistic discipline.
• Will appeal to scholars who are interested in the intersection of law and religion
• Presents a conceptual analysis of the ideas of law, love and freedom
• The idea that history can substantiate theory is expounded and defended
 
章节内容：
Introduction; 1. Cosmological beginning, eschatological end; 2. Conceptual bipolarities; 3. Methodological turn to historical narrative; 4. Prior narrative: from monasticism to constitutionalism; 5. Counter narrative: from antinomianism to anarchism; 6. Value pluralism and the search for coherence; Conclusion.
 
学术水平：academic researchers, graduate students
读者群：law and religion, law and society