Coming Soon Christianity and the Laws of Conscience: An Introduction

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Christianity and the Laws of Conscience: An Introduction

Edited by Jeffrey B. Hammond · Helen M. Alvare
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available October 2026

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ISBN-13
9781108793315
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
October 2026
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Conscience has long been a foundational theme in Christian ethics, but it is a notoriously slippery and contested term. This volume works to define conscience and reveal the similarities and differences between different Christian traditions' thinking on the subject. In a thorough and scholarly manner, the authors explore Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience. Covering a range of historical periods, major figures in the development of conscience, and contemporary applications, this book is a vital source for scholars from a wide variety of disciplines seeking to understand conscience from a range of perspectives.

Table of Contents

Part I. Themes in Understandings of Conscience in Christianity:
1. New Testament on conscience
Wendell Willis
2. Conscience and natural law in scripture
David VanDrunen
3. Conscience in early Christian thought
John Anthony McGuckin
4. Sensus Fidei, the magisterium, and the formation of conscience
E. Christian Brugger

Part II. Conscience According to Major Figures and Traditions:
5. Conscience in the early church fathers
Alexis Torrance
6. St Thomas Aquinas on conscience
Cajetan Cuddy, OP
7. Reforming the conscience: magisterial reformers on the theory and practice of conscience
John L. Thompson
8. Toward a theology of a redeemed conscience
Jeffrey B. Hammond
9. Pierre Bayle: an enlightened alternative to John Locke
Edward Andrew
10. Freedom of conscience and its right to constitutional protection: the contribution of Roger Williams
David Little
11. Jonathan Edwards on conscience
Michael McClymond
12. Obeying God rather than men: uneasy evangelicals, conscience, and politics
Micah Watson
13. Mormonism and conscience
Rosalynde Welch and Nathan B. Oman
14. Culture and conscience in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI
Peter J. Casarella

Part III. Applied Topics in Law and Conscience:
15. Liberty of conscience, free exercise of religion, and the U.S. constitution
Nathan S. Chapman
16. Religious conscience protections in American state constitutions
Michael J. DeBoer
17. Forced conformity or accommodation? How to reconcile conscience and difference in a pluralistic democracy
Mark Rienzi
18. Christian conscience and sexual expression rights
Helen M. Alvaré
19. Conscience and war
Joseph Capizzi
20. Institutional conscience, corporate persons, and Hobby Lobby
Christopher Tollefsen
21. Religion, conscience, and the law: reasons, bases, and limits for exemptions
R. Kent Greenawalt

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