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050		4	_aBL65.L52 -- R37 2011eb
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100	1		_aRashkover, Randi.
245	1	0	_aFreedom and Law : _bA Jewish-Christian Apologetics.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aUS : _bFordham University Press, _c2011.
264		4	_c©2011.
300			_a1 online resource (344 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Emancipating Law -- The Logic of Exceptionalism -- Sacrificing Election: Divine Freedom and Its Abuses -- Monotheism and Exceptionalism -- Modern Judaism, Law, and Exceptionalism -- The Logic of the Law -- The Biblical Theology of Abiding -- The New Thinking and the Order of Wisdom -- Justification in the Law and Jewish-Christian Apologetics -- The Law of Freedom, the Freedom of the Law -- Christianity and the Law: The Law as the Form of the Gospel -- Notes -- References -- Index.
520			_aFreedom and Law offers a provocative new view of the relationship between human desire, the production of knowledge, and conceptions of power by developing a nonpolemical account of divine law. Where recent trends in political theology have insisted upon the antagonistic nature of the law, this book presents the paradigm-altering power of a discourse in the nexus between law and freedom. It demonstrates how this nexus catapults religious thought into a free and powerful engagement with nonreligious political, ethical, and social positions. Freedom and Law challenges a contemporary wave of scholarship, including the work of Jacob Taubes, Giorgio Agamben, and Slavoj Zizek, that identifies Jewish law as the originary soucre of polemic between nations and therefore as historically responsible for the exceptionalism that undergirds contemporary conflict. By contrast, Freedom and Law argues that only in an account of revelatory law can divine freedom and human freedom be thought of without contradiction.The first part analyzes the logic of exceptionalism. In the second part, the author argues that one cannot invoke a doctrine of election without rigorous scrutiny of texts that portray an electing God and an elected people. Once we scrutinize these texts, the character of freedom and law within the divine-human relationship shows itself to be different from that found in exceptionalist logics.The third and final part examines the impact of the logic of the law on Jewish-Christian apologetics. Rather than require that one defend one's position to a nonbeliever, this logic situates all epistemological justification within the order or freedom of God. If the condition of the possibility of my claim is the reality of divine freedom, such freedom also justifies the possibility of another's claim.In a significant contribution to the post-ecclesiastical
520	8		_areengagement between religion, critical theory, and the political, Freedom and Law introduces new categories of knowledge and action into Jewish and Christian thinking, unbound by the dialectics of desire that has dominated the discourse of both traditions for centuries. It shows how thinking of law and freedom together may now enable Judaism and Christianity to engage in a historically self-conscious and nonrelativistic relation to each other and to nonbelievers.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aJudaism - Relations - Christianity.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aRashkover, Randi _tFreedom and Law _dUS : Fordham University Press,c2011 _z9780823234523
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3239587 _zClick to View
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