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law, love and freedom
Howdoesoneleadalifeoflaw,loveandfreedom?Thisinquiryhasverydeeproots
in the Judeo–Christian tradition. Indeed, the divergent answers to this inquiry
mark the transition from Judeo to Christian. This book returns to those roots to
tracethetwistsandturnsthattheseideashavetakenastheymovefromthesacred
tothesecular.Itrelatesourmostimportantmodeofsocialorganization,law,to
two of our most cherished values, love and freedom. In this book, Joshua Neoh
sketches the moral vision that underlies our modern legal order and traces our
secularlegalideas(constitutionalismversusanarchism)totheirtheologicalorigins
(monasticism versus antinomianism). Law, Love and Freedom brings together
adiversecastofcharacters,includingPaulandLuther,AugustineandAquinas,
monksandGnostics,andconstitutionalistsandanarchists.Thisbookisvaluableto
alllawyers,philosophers,theologiansandhistorianswhoareinterestedinlawas
ahumanisticdiscipline.
Joshua Neoh is a tenured faculty member at the law school of the Australian
NationalUniversity(ANU).HecompletedhisLLBattheANU,LLMatYale,and
PhDatCambridge,andheldvisitingresearchpositionsatHarvardandOxford.He
iscommittedtoaninterdisciplinarystudyoflaw,andhehaspublishedinthe(cid:30)elds
oflawandreligion,lawandliterature,lawandculture,lawandphilosophy,and
lawandthehumanities.
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LAWANDCHRISTIANITY
SeriesEditor
JohnWitte,Jr.,EmoryUniversity
EditorialBoard
NigelBiggar,UniversityofOxford
MartaCartabia,ItalianConstitutionalCourt/UniversityofMilano-Bicocca
SarahCoakley,UniversityofCambridge
NormanDoe,CardiffUniversity
RafaelDomingo,EmoryUniversity/UniversityofNavarra
BrianFerme,Marcianum,Venice
RichardW.Garnett,UniversityofNotreDame
RobertP.George,PrincetonUniversity
MaryAnnGlendon,HarvardUniversity
KentGreenawalt,ColumbiaUniversity
RobinGrif(cid:30)th-Jones,TempleChurch,London/King’sCollegeLondon
GaryS.Hauk,EmoryUniversity
R.H.Helmholz,UniversityofChicago
MarkHillQC,InnerTemple,London/CardiffUniversity
WolfgangHuber,BishopEmeritus,UnitedProtestantChurchofGermany/Universitiesof
Heidelberg,Berlin,andStellenbosch
MichaelW.McConnell,StanfordUniversity
JohnMcGuckin,UnionTheologicalSeminary
MarkA.Noll,UniversityofNotreDame
JeremyWaldron,NewYorkUniversity/UniversityofOxford
MichaelWelker,UniversityofHeidelberg
TheLawandChristianityseriespublishescutting-edgeworkonCatholic,Protestant,and
OrthodoxChristiancontributionstopublic,private,penal,andprocedurallawandlegal
theory. The series aims to promote deep Christian re(cid:31)ection by leading scholars on the
fundamentalsoflawandpolitics,tobuildfurtherecumenicallegalunderstandingacross
Christian denominations, and to link and amplify the diverse and sometimes isolated
Christianlegalvoices andvisionsatworkintheacademy. Workscollectedbytheseries
includegroundbreakingmonographs,historicalandthematicanthologies,andtranslations
byleadingscholarsaroundtheglobe.
BooksintheSeries
GreatChristianJuristsinFrenchHistoryOlivierDescampsandRafaelDomingo
ChurchLawinModernity:TowardaTheoryofCanonLawBetweenNatureandCulture
JudithHahn
CommonLawandNaturalLawinAmerica:FromthePuritanstotheLegalRealists
AndrewForsyth
CarefortheWorld:LaudatoSi’andCatholicSocialThoughtinanEraofClimateCrisis
FrankPasquale
Church,State,andFamily:ReconcilingTraditionalTeachingsandModernLiberties
JohnWitte,Jr
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GreatChristianJuristsinSpanishHistoryRafaelDomingoandJavierMartinez-Torron
UnderCaesar’sSword:HowChristiansRespondtoPersecutioneditedbyDanielPhilpottand
TimothySamuelShah
GodandtheIllegalAlienRobertW.Heimburger
ChristianityandFamilyLawJohnWitte,Jr.andGaryS.Hauk
ChristianityandNaturalLawNormanDoe
GreatChristianJuristsinEnglishHistoryMarkHill,QCandR.H.Helmholz
Agape,Justice,andLawRobertF.Cochran,JrandZacharyR.Calo
Calvin’sPoliticalTheologyandthePublicEngagementoftheChurchMatthewJ.Tuininga
GodandtheSecularLegalSystemRafaelDomingo
HowMarriageBecameOneoftheSacramentsPhilipReynolds
ChristianityandFreedom(VolumeI:HistoricalPerspectives,VolumeII:Contemporary
Perspectives)editedbyTimothySamuelShahandAllenD.Hertzke
TheWesternCaseforMonogamyOverPolygamyJohnWitte,Jr.
TheDistinctivenessofReligioninAmericanLawKathleenA.Brady
PopeBenedictXVI’sLegalThoughtMartaCartabiaandAndreaSimoncini
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Law, Love and Freedom
from the sacred to the secular
JOSHUA NEOH
AustralianNationalUniversity,Canberra
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Contents
Acknowledgments pagex
Introduction 1
1 CosmologicalBeginning,EschatologicalEnd 9
2 ConceptualBipolarities 42
3 MethodologicalTurntoHistoricalNarrative 78
4 PriorNarrative:FromMonasticismtoConstitutionalism 98
5 CounterNarrative:FromAntinomianismtoAnarchism 133
6 ValuePluralismandtheSearchforCoherence 166
Conclusion 182
Bibliography 190
Index 203
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Acknowledgments
Thegreatdelightofpublicationistheabilitytothankpeopleinprint.Ihave
been waiting to thank Nigel Simmonds and Peter Cane for being such
exemplary role models of what a scholar should be. I could only wish to be
halfthekindofscholarsthattheyare.Ifthereisanyintellectualrigoratallin
thisbook,Ihavelearneditallfromthem.Peter,whowasmyundergraduate
thesissupervisorattheANU,sentmetoNigel,whobecamemydoctoralthesis
supervisoratCambridge.
Itisoftendif(cid:30)culttoaccountforacademicdebts,butthefollowingareeasy
cases,forthedebtishuge.TonyConnollyandLeightonMcDonaldweremy
(cid:30)rstteachersinjurisprudenceattheANU,whereIdidmyLLB.RobertBurt
and Paul Kahn were the (cid:30)rst who taught me to see law from a theological
perspectiveatthatmostlawlessofplacescalledtheYaleLawSchool,where
Idid myLLM.Paul Babie blazed the trailfor law andreligion in Australia,
andIhavefollowedinhistraileversince.Iwould nothave persisted inthis
(cid:30)eld,butforPaul’sencouragement,whichkeptmegoing.
ThisbookstartedlifeasaPhDthesisatCambridge.Iwouldnothavebeen
able to get to Cambridge without the generous (cid:30)nancial support of the
Cambridge Australia Trust and the institutional support of the ANU Law
School, which gave me three years’ leave to complete the PhD. Stephen
BottomleyandDonRothwell,whoweretheDeanandDeputyDeanatthat
time, believed in me enough to let me go, and for that, I am truly grateful.
SallyWheeler,thecurrentDean,acceptedthereturnoftheprodigalson.
AtCambridge,MatthewKramerconvenedtheCambridgeForumforLegal
and Political Philosophy, which became my primary academic community.
The graduate student community in legal philosophy at Cambridge – John
Adenitire, Raffel Fasel, Visa Kurki, Jyr-Jong Lin and Yalan Zhang – made
doing legal philosophy fun. Jan Anton van Zanten and Yan Zi Au, despite
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