Christianity and International Law
An Introduction

This cross-disciplinary collaboration offers historical and contemporary scholarship exploring the interface of Christianity and international law.

Pamela Slotte (Edited by), John D. Haskell (Edited by)

9781108464970, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2021

400 pages
15 x 23 x 3 cm, 0.77 kg

'The essay provides important and chastening historical background for all Christians considering how religion should contribute to current political questions related to America's role on the international stage.' Elisabeth Rain Kincaid, The Living Church

This cross-disciplinary collaboration offers historical and contemporary scholarship exploring the interface of Christianity and international law. Christianity and International Law aims to understand and move past arguments, narratives and tropes that commonly frame law-religion studies in global governance. Readers are introduced to a range of confessional and critical perspectives explicitly engaging a diverse range of methodological and theoretical orientations to rethink how we experience and find ourselves caught within the phenomena of Christianity and international law.

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Christianity and international law: an introduction John D. Haskell and Pamela Slotte
2. The Byzantine commonwealth and the emerging features of a law of nations in the first millennium Peter Petkoff
3. Christianity and the birth of ambassadorial deontology: some historical notes Tiziana Faitini and Dante Fedele
4. Formation and refiguration of the canon law on trade with infidels (ca. 1200–ca. 1600) Stefan Stantchev
5. God, sovereignty, and the morality of intervention outside Europe David M. Lantigua
6. The significance of Christian charity to international law Jennifer L. Beard
7. Hugo Grotius on freedom of the seas and human nature Roland Boer
8. ?Ius gentium et naturae: the human conscience and early modern international law Janne E. Nijman
9. Legalizing antisemitism? The legacy of Savigny's roman(tic) law Reut Yael Paz
10. Missionary knowledge and the empirical foundations of modern international legal thought Jedidiah J. Kroncke
11. Standards for a righteous and civilized world: religion and America's emergence as a global power Andrew Preston
12. International Protestantism and its changing religious freedoms Udi Greenberg
13. Beyond the freedom of worship: the contested meaning of religious freedom in international human rights law and politics, 1945–1967 Linde Lindkvist
14. Truran – process theology and a pluralistic foundation for human rights Mark C. Modak
15. Christianity and human rights law: orthodox perspectives Elena Namli
16. Conquest, sacred sites, and 'religion' in a time of crisis Nathaniel Berman
17. Constantine's legacy: preserving empire while undermining international law Craig Mousin
18. Hopelessly practicing law: asylum seekers, advocates, and hostile jurisdictions Silas W. Allard
19. The hidden theology of international legal positivism Akbar Rasulov
Selected bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Public international law [LBB], Jurisprudence & general issues [LA], Christianity [HRC], Religion & politics [HRAM2]