Freedom and law : a Jewish-Christian apologetics / Randi Rashkover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rashkover, Randi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty--Religious aspects.

Liberty.

Law--Biblical teaching.

Law.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Relations.

Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Physical Description:

vii, 334 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Freedom and Law offers a provocative new view of the relationship between human desire, the production of knowledge, and conceptions of power by developing a nonpolemical account of divine law. Where recent trends in political theology have insisted upon the antagonistic nature of the law, this book presents the paradigm-altering power of a discourse in the nexus between law and freedom. Out of this nexus, religious thought enters into a free and powerful engagement with nonreligious political, ethical; and social positions.

Freedom and Law challenges a contemporary wave of scholarship that identifies Jewish law as the originary source of polemic between nations and therefore as historically responsible for the exceptionalism that undergirds contemporary conflict. By contrast, Freedom and Law argues that only in an account of revelatory law can divine freedom and human freedom be thought of without contradiction.

Locating itself in the space between religion, critical theory, and the political, Freedom and Law introduces new categories of knowledge and action into Jewish and Christian' thinking, unbound by the dialectics of desire that has dominated the discourse of both traditions for centuries. It shows how thinking of law and freedom together may now enable Judaism and Christianity to engage in a historically self-conscious and nonrelativistic relation to each other and to nonbelievers. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: emancipating law

Pt. I. The logic of exceptionalism. 1. Sacrificing election: divine freedom and its abuses

2. Monotheism and exceptionalism

3. Materializing the law: Spinoza, Rose, and Novak

Pt. II. The logic of the law. 4. The biblical theology of abiding

5. The new thinking and the order of wisdom

Pt. III. Justification in the law and Jewish-Christian apologetics. 6. The freedom of the law and the law of freedom: re-reading election

7. Christianity and the law: the law as the form of the gospel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823234523

0823234525

9780823234530

0823234533

OCLC:

694832834