C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-107-10824-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

Conventional wisdom holds that C. S. Lewis was uninterested in politics and public affairs. The conventional wisdom is wrong. As Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson show in this groundbreaking work, Lewis was deeply interested in the fundamental truths and falsehoods about human nature and how these conceptions manifest themselves in the contested and turbulent public square. Ranging from the depths of Lewis' philosophical treatments of epistemology and moral pedagogy to practical considerations of morals legislation and responsible citizenship, this book explores the contours of Lewis' multi-faceted Christian engagement with political philosophy generally and the natural-law tradition in particular. Drawing from the full range of Lewis' corpus and situating his thought in relationship to both ancient and modern seminal thinkers, C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law offers an unprecedented look at politics and political thought from the perspective of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dyer, Justin Buckley

Watson, Micah J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Kirchliche Bildungseinrichtungen, Diakonie, Caritas
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The apolitical and political C. S. Lewis; 2. Creation, fall and human nature; 3. Divine commands and the natural law; 4. The early modern turn and the abolition of man; 5. Lewis' Lockean liberalism; 6. Screwtape is in the details; 7. Conclusion: politics in the shadowlands; 8. Selected bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Dyer, Justin Buckley
Justin Buckley Dyer is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri. He is the author of Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition (Cambridge, 2012); Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning (Cambridge, 2013); and the editor of American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence (2012). He earned a Ph.D. in government at the University of Texas, Austin and a B.A. and M.P.A. at the University of Oklahoma.

Watson, Micah J.
Micah J. Watson is 2015-16 William Spoelhof Teacher-Scholar Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at Calvin College, Michigan. He is the co-editor of Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought (2012), and has contributed chapters to this book as well as John Rawls and Christian Social Engagement (2015), and Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order (2014). In 2010-11 he was the William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life at Princeton University, New Jersey. He earned his Ph.D. in politics at Princeton University, and his M.A. in Church-State Studies at Baylor University, Texas.