1st Edition
Jurisprudence and Theology The Australian School
1. Jurisprudence and Theology: The Australian School
Jonathan Crowe, Constance Youngwon Lee and Joshua Neoh
Part I: Natural Law and Theology
2. The Obligation to Obey in Natural Law Theories and Legal Positivism
Anna Taitslin
3. Why Church Government Needs a Doctrine of Natural Law
Benjamin B Saunders
4. Eternal, Natural, Human, Divine: A Theological Perspective on the Types of Law
Jonathan Crowe
Part II: Constitutionalism and Theology
5. Christian Inspirations and Constitutional Insights
Patrick A Keane AC KC
6. The ‘Invincible Bulwark’ of Constitutions
Renato Costa
7. Coercion or Persuasion? The Insights of John Locke, St Augustine and Joseph Smith
A Keith Thompson
8. Prudentia in Post-Conflict Legal Reconstruction
Justin McGovern, Joseph Suttie and Madeleine Suttie
Part III: Old Views, New Viewpoints
9. Law as a Leap of Faith: Response to Gardner
Joshua Neoh and Jonathan Tjandra
10. Lawyers in The Lawes: English Jurists and Richard Hooker’s Theology
Reid Mortensen
11. On the Theological Grounds of a Philosophical Jurisprudence: The Simplicity of God and the Nature of Law
Nicholas Aroney
Part IV: Comparative Perspectives
12. From Sage to Statesman: A Comparative Analysis of the ‘Conscionable Person’ from Confucian and Calvinian Perspectives
Constance Youngwon Lee
13. To God or Not to God: The Implications of God’s (Non-)Existence in the Jurisprudences of Early Buddhism and Thomas Aquinas
Oscar H Kawamata
14. Connecting the Western Legal Tradition to Christianity: Could Legal Culture be the Missing Link?
Benny Tabalujan
Part V: Future Directions
15. Challenging the Unreal: The Future of Australian Law and Religion
Joel Harrison and Lukas Opacic
Biography
Jonathan Crowe is Research Professor of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Constance Youngwon Lee is Lecturer in Law at Adelaide University, Australia.
Joshua Neoh is Associate Professor of Law at the Australian National University.
