The Ten commandments in history : mosaic paradigms for a well-ordered society /

Kuntz, Paul Grimley, 1915--

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. - Grand Rapids, Mich : Eerdmans Pub, c2004. - xiv, 226 p.; 23 cm. - Emory University studies in law and religion .

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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Ten commandments

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