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Religion, Law, and Democracy: Selected Writings

Religion, Law, and Democracy: Selected Writings

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Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930-2019) was one of Europe's foremost legal scholars and political thinkers. As a scholar of constitutional law and a judge on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (1983-1996), Böckenförde was a major contributor to contemporary debates in legal and political
theory, to the conceptual framework of the modern state and its presuppositions, and to contested political issues such as the constitutional status of the state of emergency, citizenship rights, bioethical politics, and the challenges of European integration. His writings have shaped not only
academic but also wider public debates from the 1950s to the present, to an extent that few European scholars can match. As a federal constitutional judge and holder of a trusted public office, Böckenförde has influenced the way academics and citizens think about law and politics. During his tenure
on the Court, several path-breaking decisions for the Federal Republic of Germany were handed down, including decisions on the deployment of missiles, the law on political parties, the regulation of abortion, and the process of European integration.

This second volume in the first representative edition in English of Böckenförde's writings brings together his essays on religion, law, and democracy. The volume is organized in five sections: I. the Catholic Church and Political Order; II. State and Secularity; III. the Theology of Law and its
Relation to Political Theory; IV. Norms and the Principle of Human Dignity; and V. Excerpts from a biographical interview. Sections I, II, III, and IV are preceded by an editors' introduction to the articles as well as running editorial commentary to the work.


Author: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/19/2021
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780198818632

About the Author

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Professor Emeritus of Public Law, University of Freiburg; former Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde was a Professor of Public Law at the University of Freiburg. He served as a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (1983-1996) and made pathbreaking contributions in the fields of constitutional history, constitutional dogmatics, philosophy of law, the status
of natural law and canon law in modern democracy, and to democratic theory.

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