On the symbiosis of law and truth in Christian theology: Reconciling universal and particular through the Pauline law of love

This article argues that the secular liberal and positivist foundations of the modern Western legal system render it violent. In particular, the liberal exclusion of faith and subjectivity in favour of abstract and universal reason in conjunction with its privileging of individual autonomy at the expense of the community leads to alienation of the individual from the community. Similarly, the positivist exclusion of faith and theology from law, with its enforced conformity to the posited law, also results in this violence of alienation. In response, this article proposes a new foundation for law, a natural law based in the truth of Trinitarian theology articulated by John Milbank. In the Trinity, the members exist as a perfect unity in diversity, providing a model for the reconciliation of the legal individual and community: the law of love. Through the law of love as the basic norm, individuals love their neighbours as themselves, reconciling the particular and the universal, and providing a community of peace rather than violence.

The works of Leonard Woods, D.D. lately professor of Christian theology in the theological seminary, Andover.

Includes index in v. 5.

An inaugural address, delivered before the directors of the Theological Seminary of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, by S. S. Schmucker, A.M. at his induction into the Professorship of Christian Theology, September 5, 1826.

Green printed paper cover has title: "Inaugural address of Professor Schmucker."

Dissertations upon several fundamental articles of Christian theology /

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The scholastic philosophy considered in its relation to Christian theology in a course of lectures delivered before the University of Oxford, in the year MDCCCXXXII, at the lecture founded by John Bampton, M.A., Canon of Salisbury /

English and Latin.

Christian theology in outline.

"A classified bibliography": p. [427]-454.

A compendium of Christian theology : being analytical outlines of a course of theological study, biblical, dogmatic, historical /

Includes index.

Outlines of Christian theology,

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Christian theology and modern skepticism

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An outline of Christian theology /

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The scholastic philosophy considered in its relation to Christian theology,

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Introduction to Christian theology. Apologetics /

Includes indexes.

An outline of Christian theology /

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An outline of Christian theology /

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An outline of Christian theology,

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