Owen Anderson

The Declaration of Independence and God

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the concept of a 'self-evident' God in American legal thought from the Revolution to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 473g
• ISBN-13: 9781107088184
• ISBN-10: 1107088186
• Artikelnr.: 42803927

Autorenporträt

Owen Anderson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Arizona State University West. He is the author of Reason and Worldviews (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine
2. The reformed influence on common sense philosophy
3. Common sense and self-evident in law
4. Intuition and the self-evident in law
5. Naturalism, Darwinism, the self-evident, and law
6. Revivalism, new religious movements, and law
7. Liberal theology and legal transformations
8. Secular and religious goods in the twentieth century
Conclusion.