God and the Secular Legal System

This is a timely contribution to the debate on the rights and liberties of religion, beliefs, and conscience in an age of secularization.

Rafael Domingo (Author)

9781107147317, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 September 2016

194 pages
23.7 x 16 x 1.7 cm, 0.43 kg

'… this imaginative, succinct and profound book is a major contribution to scholarship and debate about fundamental questions relating to law and religion.' Norman Doe, Ecclesiastical Law Journal

This timely book offers a theistic approach to secular legal systems and demonstrates that these systems are neither agnostic nor atheist. Critical but succinct in its approach, this book focuses on an extensive range of liberal legal approaches to religious and moral issues, and subjects them to critical scrutiny from a secular perspective. Expertly written by a leading scholar, the author offers a rare combination of profundity of ideas and simplicity of expression. It is a ringing defense of the theistic conception of secular legal systems and an uncompromising attack on the agnostic and atheist conception.

1. God as a metalegal concept
2. Religion as a public limit of the secular legal system
3. Conscience as a private limit of the secular legal system
4. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Systems of law [LAF], Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB], Jurisprudence & general issues [LA], Philosophy of religion [HRAB]