The Law of God
The Philosophical History of an Idea
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Introduction
PART I ORIGINS
1 Prehistory
2 The Greek Idea of Divine Law
3 Historical Conditions of Alliance
PART II THE DIVINE LAW
4 The State and the Law: Ancient Israel
5 The Legislation of the Sacred Books
PART III SUCCESSION THROUGH TIME
6 Mother Religions and Daughter Religions
7 The Law as Enforced
PART IV LAW AND CITIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES
8 Judaism: A Law without a State
9 Christianity: A Conflict of Laws
10 Islam: Law Rules
PART V DIVINE LAW IN MEDIEVAL THOUGHT
11 The Aims of the Law: Islam
12 The Law as an End: Judaism
13 The End of the Law: Christianity
PART VI SANS FOI NI LOI: NEITHER FAITH NOR LAW?
14 The Modern Age: Destruction of the Idea of Divine Law
15 Judaism and Islam in the Modern Age
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
“This new book by Rémi Brague features the same outstanding scholarship and skills that have characterized his previous works: deep knowledge of the languages, as well as an extensive mastery of the theology, philosophy, and religious thought of ancient and medieval Islam, Judaism, and Western and Eastern Christianity. With an impressive genealogy, he traces the roots of modernity back to these three intellectual traditions that have worked together (and fought each other) through history. And we cannot ignore the possibility that this triple origin may frame our future as much as, or even more than, anything postmodernity might allow us to foresee.”<Jean-Luc Marion, author of God without Being>
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