LEADER 05032nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910827505803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-6901-9 010 $a0-8232-4088-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000054672 035 $a(PromptCat)99946281503 035 $a(MH)013028227-8 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000551316 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11408586 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551316 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10526137 035 $a(PQKB)11532280 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000054489 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239587 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239587 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10497671 035 $a(OCoLC)763156418 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000054672 100 $a20110223d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFreedom and law $ea Jewish-Christian apologetics /$fRandi Rashkover 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 334 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-3452-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: emancipating law -- Pt. I. The logic of exceptionalism. 1. Sacrificing election: divine freedom and its abuses -- 2. Monotheism and exceptionalism -- 3. Materializing the law: Spinoza, Rose, and Novak -- Pt. II. The logic of the law. 4. The biblical theology of abiding -- 5. The new thinking and the order of wisdom -- Pt. III. Justification in the law and Jewish-Christian apologetics. 6. The freedom of the law and the law of freedom: re-reading election -- 7. Christianity and the law: the law as the form of the gospel. 330 $aFreedom and Law offers a provocative new view of the relationship between human desire, the production of knowledge, and conceptions of power by developing a nonpolemical account of divine law. Where recent trends in political theology have insisted upon the antagonistic nature of the law, this book presents the paradigm-altering power of a discourse in the nexus between law and freedom. It demonstrates how this nexus catapults religious thought into a free and powerful engagement with nonreligious political, ethical, and social positions.Freedom and Law challenges a contemporary wave of scholarship, including the work of Jacob Taubes, Giorgio Agamben, and Slavoj Zizek, that identifies Jewish law as the originary soucre of polemic between nations and therefore as historically responsible for the exceptionalism that undergirds contemporary conflict. 330 $aBy contrast, Freedom and Law argues that only in an account of revelatory law can divine freedom and human freedom be thought of without contradiction.The first part analyzes the logic of exceptionalism. In the second part, the author argues that one cannot invoke a doctrine of election without rigorous scrutiny of texts that portray an electing God and an elected people. Once we scrutinize these texts, the character of freedom and law within the divine-human relationship shows itself to be different from that found in exceptionalist logics.The third and final part examines the impact of the logic of the law on Jewish-Christian apologetics. Rather than require that one defend one's position to a nonbeliever, this logic situates all epistemological justification within the order or freedom of God. 330 $aIf the condition of the possibility of my claim is the reality of divine freedom, such freedom also justifies the possibility of another's claim.In a significant contribution to the post-ecclesiastical reengagement between religion, critical theory, and the political, Freedom and Law introduces new categories of knowledge and action into Jewish and Christian thinking, unbound by the dialectics of desire that has dominated the discourse of both traditions for centuries. It shows how thinking of law and freedom together may now enable Judaism and Christianity to engage in a historically self-conscious and nonrelativistic relation to each other and to nonbelievers. 606 $aLiberty$xReligious aspects 606 $aLaw$xBiblical teaching 606 $aJudaism$xRelations$xChristianity 606 $aChristianity and other religions$xJudaism 615 0$aLiberty$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aLaw$xBiblical teaching. 615 0$aJudaism$xRelations$xChristianity. 615 0$aChristianity and other religions$xJudaism. 676 $a296.3/96 700 $aRashkover$b Randi$01596127 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827505803321 996 $aFreedom and law$93917354 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress