Eugene F. Rogers

Aquinas and the Supreme Court

Race, Gender, and the Failure of Natural Law in Thomas's Bibical Commentaries

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Challenges in Contemporary Theology .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781118391167
• ISBN-10: 1118391160
• Artikelnr.: 37050404

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi Bibliographic Note xiv List of Abbreviations xvii 1
Aquinas on the Supreme Court - and on the Bible, or How to 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: Aquinas Meets Karl Barth 179 8 How Faith and
Reason Follow Glory 215 9 How Aquinas Makes Nature Dynamic All the Way
Down: Aquinas Meets 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: Rereading Romans 289 Conclusion: Questions
Answered and Unanswered 298 Subject Index 305 Index of Thomistic Citations
313

Rezensionen

"A "must" for the theological-college library, this is not a book that can be ignored by anyone interested in this fascinating and deeply influential Dominican." (Church Times, 17 January 2014)

"This book will be particularly useful for graduate students in philosophy and theology. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students." (Choice, 1 November 2013)