Christianity and Constitutionalism

Christianity and Constitutionalism offers innovative and thoughtful analyses of the relationship between religious thought and constitutional law. Part I features contributions from historians, recounting how the relationship between the Christian faith and fundamental ideas about law, justice, and government has evolved from era to era. Part II provides analyses from constitutional lawyers on the normative implications of Christianity for particular themes in constitutional law, including sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy, the separation of powers, human rights, conscience, and federalism. Part III rounds out the study with theologians focused on particular Christian doctrines, exploring their constructive and sometimes critical implications for constitutionalism. As a whole, Christianity and Constitutionalism breaks new ground by offering wide-ranging, interdisciplinary contributions to the study of the relationship between the Christian religion and constitutional law.


Author: Nicholas Aroney
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.07w x 1.15d
ISBN13: 9780197587263
ISBN10: 0197587267
BISAC Categories:
- Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
- Religion | Christian Theology | General
- Religion | Christian Church | History

About the Author

Nicholas Aroney is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Queensland and Affiliated Faculty of the Centre for Law and Religion at Emory University. He has a law degree from the University of Queensland, a PhD from Monash University and has held visiting positions at Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Edinburgh, Sydney, Emory and Tilburg universities. He is the author of over 150 articles, book chapters and books on constitutional law, comparative federalism, law and religion, and religious freedom, including The Constitution of a Federal Commonwealth: The Making and Meaning of the Australian Constitution (2009), Shari'a in the West (OUP, 2010) and The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia: History, Principle and Interpretation (2015). In 2010 he also received of a prestigious four-year Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council to study comparative federalism. In 2017-18 he was appointed to the Australian Prime Minister's Expert Panel on Religious Freedom which
submitted its report in May 2018.

Ian Leigh is Emeritus Professor of Law at Durham University. He has held visiting positions at Osgoode Hall Law School and the universities of Otago, Florida, Virginia and Melbourne. He is author of around 100 articles, book chapters and books on public law and human rights including In From the Cold: National Security and Parliamentary Democracy (OUP, 1994), with Laurence Lustgarten, Law Politics and Local Democracy (OUP, 2000), Making Rights Real: the Human Rights Act in its First Decade (2008) with Roger Masterman, and Religious Freedom in the Liberal State (2nd ed, OUP, 2013), with Rex Ahdar. He is currently a British Academy Wolfson Research Professor working on a funded study 'Freedom of Conscience: Emerging Challenges and Future Prospects'.