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Patriarchal religion, sexuality, and gender : a critique of new natural law / Nicholas Bamforth, David A.J. Richards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bamforth, Nicholas, author.
- Richards, David A. J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural law.
- Sex and law.
- Natural law--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 403 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Other Title:
- Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, & Gender
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Legal theorists are familiar with John Finnis's book Natural Law and Natural Rights, but usually overlook his interventions in US constitutional debates and his membership of a group of conservative Catholic thinkers, the 'new natural lawyers', led by theologian Germain Grisez. In fact, Finnis has repeatedly advocated conservative positions concerning lesbian and gay rights, contraception and abortion, and his substantive moral theory (as he himself acknowledges) derives from Grisez. Bamforth and Richards provide a detailed explanation of the work of the new natural lawyers within and outside the Catholic Church - the first truly comprehensive explanation available to legal theorists - and criticize Grisez's and Finnis's arguments concerning sexuality and gender. New natural law is, they argue, a theology rather than a secular theory, and one which is unappealing in a modern constitutional democracy. This book will be of interest to legal and political theorists, ethicists, theologians and scholars of religious history.
- Contents:
- New natural law in context
- Criteria for evaluating new natural law
- The architecture and reach of new natural law
- Internal consistency (1): is new natural law secular?
- Internal consistency (2): new natural law and Thomas Aquinas
- Substantive appeal (1): what's wrong with homophobia and sexism?
- Substantive appeal (2): new natural law, sexism, and homophobia
- Moral absolutes and the possible fundamentalism of new natural law
- New natural law and patriarchal religion
- Concluding observations, and Christian alternatives to new natural law.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511550942
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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