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Christian Natural Law and Religious Freedom: A Foundation Based on Love, the True, and the Good book cover

1st Edition

Christian Natural Law and Religious Freedom A Foundation Based on Love, the True, and the Good

By Alex Deagon Copyright 2026
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge
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Deagon addresses the need for a robust theoretical foundation for religious freedom that accounts for its transcendent nature. What is the idea of religious freedom? Where does it come from? Why should it be protected? These important questions for understanding religious freedom are usually addressed through secular and immanent foundations which are unable to sufficiently grapple with the... Read more

Foreword

1 Introduction

Part I Articulating Christian Natural Law

2 The Different Traditions of Christian Natural Law
3 The Theological Nature of Traditional ‘Secular’ Natural Law
4 Radical Orthodoxy and the Reconciliation of Christian Natural Law

Part II Christian Natural Law as a Foundation for Religious Freedom

5 Bona: Basic Goods and the Common Good
6 Aletheia: Divine Revelation
7 Agape: The Law of Love, or the Culmination of the True and the Good

Index

Biography

Alex Deagon is Associate Professor in the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. He is an international expert in religious freedom and the author of From Violence to Peace (2017) and Reconciling Freedom and Discrimination (2023).

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