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Aquinas and the Supreme Court: Biblical Narratives of Jews, Gentiles and Gender

Aquinas and the Supreme Court: Biblical Narratives of Jews, Gentiles and Gender

Author: Eugene F. Rogers, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781118391167
Published In: May 2013
Format: Hardback , 326 pages
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This new work clarifies Aquinas’ concept of natural law through his biblical commentaries, and explores its applications to U.S. constitutional law.

The first time the use of Aquinas on the U.S. Supreme Court has been explored in depth, and its applications tested through a rigorous reading of the biblical commentaries
Shows how key judgments in the Supreme Court have rested on medieval natural law, and applies critical gender theory to discuss problems with these applications
Offers new research data to give a different picture of Aquinas and natural law, and a fresh take on Aquinas’ biblical commentaries
New research based on passages in the biblical commentaries never before available in English

Acknowledgments

Bibliographic Note

List of Abbreviations

1 Aquinas on the Supreme Court – and on the Bible, or How to Read This Book

Part I Aquinas on the Failure of Natural Law

2 What Aquinas Thinks We Cannot Know

3 How God Moves Creatures: For and Against Natural Law

4 How Aquinas Reads Scripture

5 How the Law of Nature Is a Character in Decline

6 How the Narrative Sexualizes Nature’s Decline

Part II Aquinas on the Redemption of Natural Law

7 How Aquinas Gets Nature and Grace Back Together Again: Aquinas Meets Karl Barth

8 How Faith and Reason Follow Glory

9 How Aquinas Makes Nature Dynamic All the Way Down: Aquinas Meets Judith Butler

10 How the Spirit Moves the Law

11 How Natural Science Becomes a Form of Prayer

12 How the Semen of the Spirit Genders the Gentiles: Rereading Romans

Conclusion: Questions Answered and Unanswered

Index

Eugene F. Rogers is Professor of Religious Studies and Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has taught at Princeton, Yale, Shaw University Divinity School, among others, and has held numerous fellowships. He is author or editor of five books and many articles and translations. In 2010, Christian Centurynamed his book Sexuality and the Christian Body among “essential reading” published in the past 25 years.

“In this fascinating new book, Eugene Rogers shows, in an unprecedented way, how Aquinas thinks that the law of nature is discerned differently according to specific historical position and cultural belonging. A singularly crucial contribution to the developing new debate about law and religion.”—John Milbank, University of Nottingham

“In this well documented and lucidly argued book we discover that what might seem purely arcane medieval scholarship cuts decisively into matters of currently great human concern.”—Fergus Kerr, University of Edinburgh

“Rogers's detailed and erudite argument constitutes a radical challenge to the ‘new natural law theory’. Rooted deeply in Aquinas's biblical commentaries, his book turns St. Thomas against those who would use him to defend a socially conservative agenda in American law. Rogers simply up-ends the culture wars. Anyone interested in the relationship of religion, morality, and American law should read this book.”—M Cathleen Kaveny, University of Notre Dame