Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde

Religion, Law, and Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

Selected Writings
Redaktion: Künkler, Mirjam; Stein, Tine

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Produktbeschreibung

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930-2019) was one of Europe's foremost legal scholars and political thinkers. As a scholar of constitutional law and a judge on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (1983-1996), Böckenförde was a major contributor to contemporary debates in legal and political theory, to the conceptual framework of the modern state and its presuppositions, and to contested political issues such as the constitutional status of the state of emergency, citizenship rights, bioethical politics, and the challenges of European integration. His writings have shaped not only academic but also wider public debates from the 1950s to the present, to an extent that few European scholars can match. As a federal constitutional judge and holder of a trusted public office, Böckenförde has influenced the way academics and citizens think about law and politics. During his tenure on the Court, several path-breaking decisions for the Federal Republic of Germany were handed down, including decisions on the deployment of missiles, the law on political parties, the regulation of abortion, and the process of European integration. This second volume in the first representative edition in English of Böckenförde's writings brings together his essays on religion, law, and democracy. The volume is organized in five sections: I. the Catholic Church and Political Order; II. State and Secularity; III. the Theology of Law and its Relation to Political Theory; IV. Norms and the Principle of Human Dignity; and V. Excerpts from a biographical interview. Sections I, II, III, and IV are preceded by an editors' introduction to the articles as well as running editorial commentary to the work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192550620
• Artikelnr.: 60545483

Autorenporträt

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930-2019) was a Professor emeritus of Public Law at the University of Freiburg. He is one of the best-known and most influential German legal scholars in the post-war period. From 1983-1996 he served as Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. In the 1960s, Böckenförde was one of the founders of the journal Der Staat - Zeitschrift für Staatslehre, Öffentliches Recht und Verfassungsgeschichte. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party and served as a long-time legal advisor to it.

Inhaltsangabe

* Freedom in Religion, Freedom in the State: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
on Religion, Law, and Democracy
* Part I: Catholic Church and Political Order
* Böckenförde on the relation of the Catholic Church and Christians to
democracy and authoritarianism
* I: The Ethos of Modern Democracy and the Church [1957]
* II: German Catholicism in 1933: A Critical Examination [1961]
* III: Types of Christian Worldly Conduct during the Nazi-Regime [1965]
* IV: Religious Freedom Between the Conflicting Demands of Church and
State [1964-79]
* Part II: State and Secularity
* Böckenförde on the Secular State and Secular Law
* V: The Rise of the State as a Process of Secularization [1967]
* VI: The Fundamental Right of Freedom of Conscience [1969]
* VII: Remarks on the Relation between State and Religion in Hegel
[1982]
* VIII: The Secularized State: Its Character, Justification, and
Problems in the Twenty-First Century [2007]
* Part III: On the Theology of Law and Political Theory
* Böckenförde on the Relationship Between Theology, Law and Political
Theory
* IX: Political Theory and Political Theology: Comments on their
reciprocal relationship [1981]
* X: Reflections on a Theology of Modern Secular Law [1999]
* XI: A Christian in the Office of Constitutional Judge [1999]
* XII: On the Authority of Papal Encyclicals: the Example of
Pronouncements on Religious Freedom [2005]
* Part IV: Basic Norms and the Principle of Human Dignity
* Böckenförde on the Right to Life, Human Dignity, and its
Meta-positive Foundations
* XIII: Abolition of § 218 of the Criminal Code? Reflections on the
Current debate about the prohibition of abortion under German
Criminal Law [1971]
* XIV: Human Dignity as a Normative Principle: Fundamental Rights in
the Bioethics Debate [2003]
* XV: Will Human Dignity Remain Inviolable? [2004]
* Part V: Böckenförde in Context
* XVI: Dieter Gosewinkel: Biographical Interview with Ernst-Wolfgang
Böckenförde [2011]