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" The possibility of religious freedom: Natural law in ancient Greek, medieval Muslim, and early Christian sources "
Karen Elizabeth Taliaferro
Shah, Timothy S.; Mitchell, Joshua
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803552
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TL48345
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1708665044; 3714706
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Abdulkadir, Nader Salaheldin Abdulrahim
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The possibility of religious freedom: Natural law in ancient Greek, medieval Muslim, and early Christian sources\ Karen Elizabeth TaliaferroShah, Timothy S.; Mitchell, Joshua
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Georgetown University
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2015
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Ph.D.
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Government
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2015
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240
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Committee members: Butterworth, Charles
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-92338-4
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This dissertation examines whether and how theories of unwritten and natural law can provide a better basis for religious freedom than prevailing concepts. I argue first that the fundamental problem of religious freedom is the perennial conflict of human and divine law. I then present theories of unwritten and natural law, including those present in Sophocles’ Antigone, Ibn Rushd’s <i>Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric</i>, and Tertullian’s various writings, arguing that expanding our notion of law to incorporate such theories can mediate the human and divine law and provide a rich foundation for religious liberty, even in modernity’s pluralism.
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Religious history; European history; Philosophy; Ancient history; Political science; Comparative
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Antigone;Human rights;Islam;Natural law;Religious freedom;Rushd, ibn
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Shah, Timothy S.; Mitchell, Joshua
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GovernmentGeorgetown University
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