Law and theology in Gilbert of Foliot's (c. 1105/10-1187/88) correspondence

Lord Peter Stein, eminent historian of Roman law, described the interaction of law and theology in the writings of one twelfth-century writer as a kind of 'universal jurisprudence' , The twelfth-century figure to whom he referred was Master Vacarius (c. 1115/2O-c. 1200), well-known English Roman lawyer and Anglo-Norman canonist. While Stein drew this conclusion largely on the basis of an analysis of Vacatius' strictly 'legal' work, the Liber pauperum, I have shown elsewhere, following a systematic study ofVacarius' other works, dealing with maniage, christology and heresy, that, when seen together, they demonstrate a use of law as a universal heuristic device to resolve conflict in law and theology.

Bonhoeffer as Kierkegaard’s ‘single individual’ in a ‘state of exception’

This thesis interrogates the idea that violence can be justified as a ‘last resort’ through investigating the concept of ‘exception’ in the writing and action of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in conjunction with the writings of Soren Kierkegaard and the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.