The Ten commandments in history : mosaic paradigms for a well-ordered society / Paul Grimley Kuntz; edited by Thomas D'Evelyn; with a foreword by Marion Leather Kuntz.
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TextSeries: Emory University studies in law and religionPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich : Eerdmans Pub, c2004.Description: xiv, 226 p.; 23 cmISBN: - 0802826601
- BV 4655 .K86 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index
Contents:
I. Classical and modern
The ten commandment, ancient and modern
Philo Judaeus: a decalogue in balance
Saint Gregory in Palamas: the Christian transformation
Richard Rolle: The decalogue of and English hermit
King Alfred: the decalogue and Anglo-American law
Ramon Lull: A decalogue of medieval reasons
Thomas Aquinas: firmness and flexibility in the decalogue
II. Reformation
Girolano Savonarola: The decalogue of a fanatic
John Wycliffe: a powerful original
Martin Luther: a decalogue of faith
John Calvin: the logic of the law
Paracelsus: Commandments without stone
Joseph Waite: Ecstasies of the Puritan heart
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
Jonathan Edwards: The commandment of love
III. Modern
Montesquieu: The decalogue of a philosophe
Immanuel Kant: A critical decalogue
Thomas Jefferson: the decalogues of a civil religion
Jeremy Bentham: Blunt critic of the decalogue
A diversity of rationalists: Montaigne, Pascal, Spinoza, and Hegel
Nietzshe and after: the lastingness of the ten commandments
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