A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious LibertyPolitical Liberal and Theological Contentions
A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty: Political Liberal and Theological Contentions
David, Edward A.
2020-09-22 00:00:00
[This chapter highlights some of the theoretical and practical benefits of viewing corporate claimants to religious freedom as social actions, as opposed to rights-holding corporate persons. These benefits include movement beyond the divide between individual- and group-rights advocates, preservation of churches’ distinct normative value, and justification for degrees of governmental interference when religious liberty disputes arise. Of particular importance, the chapter demonstrates how groups—when viewed as verbs—can intelligibly be the subject of moral and legal analysis. On this point, Aquinas’s Summa theologiae and various court opinions (including from Judge Kent Jordan of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals and from Justice Samuel Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court) come together to illuminate the practical moral use of Aquinas’s group ontology.]
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A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious LibertyPolitical Liberal and Theological Contentions
[This chapter highlights some of the theoretical and practical benefits of viewing corporate claimants to religious freedom as social actions, as opposed to rights-holding corporate persons. These benefits include movement beyond the divide between individual- and group-rights advocates, preservation of churches’ distinct normative value, and justification for degrees of governmental interference when religious liberty disputes arise. Of particular importance, the chapter demonstrates how groups—when viewed as verbs—can intelligibly be the subject of moral and legal analysis. On this point, Aquinas’s Summa theologiae and various court opinions (including from Judge Kent Jordan of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals and from Justice Samuel Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court) come together to illuminate the practical moral use of Aquinas’s group ontology.]
Published: Sep 22, 2020
Keywords: Religious freedom; Religious institution; Churches; Corporate person; Voluntary association; Rights
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