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The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers.
Title:
The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers.
Author:
Foster, Paul.
ISBN:
9780567647276
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Contents:
Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- Introduction -- 1. Legal Moralism or Paternalism? Tolerance or Indifference? Egalitarian Justice and the Ethics of Equal Concern -- 1. USUAL PREJUDICES -- 2. TOLERANCE, PERMISSIVENESS, INDIFFERENCE -- 3. THE NORM OF EQUAL CONCERN AND THE PROBLEM OF IMPLEMENTATION -- 4. POLITICAL NEUTRALITY AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF MORALS -- 5. DEMOCRATIC OBJECTIVISM -- 6. POLITICAL NEUTRALITY AND IDEALS OF THE GOOD -- 7. THE POLITICS OF EQUAL CONCERN -- 2. Privacy, Autonomy and Criminal Justice Rights: Philosophical Preliminaries -- I. THE VALUE OF PRIVACY -- II. THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY -- III. PRIVACY RIGHTS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- 3. The Public, the Private and the Significance of Payments -- INTRODUCTORY -- CONCLUSIONS AND AGENDA -- 4. Sovereignty, Criminal Law and the New European Context -- I. THE STATE, SOVEREIGNTY AND AUTONOMY -- II. EUROPEAN UNION -- III. EU AND PRIVATE SPHERE/ PRIVATE AUTONOMY -- 5. The State and the Nation's Bedrooms: The Fundamental Right of Sexual Autonomy -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE LIMITS OF SEXUAL AUTONOMY -- EQUALITY RIGHTS AND AUTONOMY -- AUTONOMY AND THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF OTHERS -- THE LIMITS OF SEXUAL AUTONOMY: COERCION AND CONSENT -- SEXUAL AUTONOMY, THE PROBLEM OF PUBLIC SPACE AND THE LIMITS OF CONSENT -- 6. Human Rights and the Criminalisation of Tradition: The Practices Formerly Known as "Female Circumcision" -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL DEFINITIONS OF FC/FGM -- HUMAN RIGHTS, CRIMINAL LAW AND FC/FGM -- CRIMINAL LAW PENALTIES AND ENFORCEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- 7. Denying Shoah -- THE AUSCHWITZ LIE -- DEVELOPMENTS IN NATIONAL AND IN INTERNATIONAL LAW -- THE APPROACH OF HUMAN RIGHTS BODIES: ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF CRIMINALISATION.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE UNITED STATES: ARGUMENTS AGAINST CRIMINALISATION -- CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS -- 8. Criminal Legislation in the Nineteenth Century: The Historic Roots of Criminal Law and Non-Intervention in The Netherlands -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CRIMINAL LEGISLATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 3. THE 1886 CRIMINAL CODE: LEADING PRINCIPLES -- 4. THE COMPILERS OF THE 1886 CRIMINAL CODE ON THE PRIVATE SPHERE AND PERSONAL AUTONOMY -- 5. CONCLUSIONS ON MODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NETHERLANDS -- 9. Consent in Dutch Criminal Law -- 1. BASIC ESSENTIALS OF DUTCH CRIMINAL LAW -- 2. FIELDS OF CRIMINAL LAW WHERE CONSENT IS RELEVANT -- 3. CONCLUSION -- 10. Dangerousness, Popular Knowledge and the Criminal Law: A Case Study of the Paedophile as Sociocultural Phenomenon -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CONSTRUCTING THE PAEDOPHILE: PUBLIC PROTEST AND THE RELEASE OF SEX OFFENDERS FROM PRISON -- 2. THE DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL: RISK, POPULAR KNOWLEDGE AND THE RULE OF LAW -- 3. CHILDHOOD, PARENTHOOD AND GENDER: (RE)CONSTRUCTING THE PAEDOPHILE AS OTHER -- 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 11. The Fight Against Sex with Children -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BACK TO THE CLOSET -- 3. REACTIONS OF SOCIETY -- 4. SEX WITH CHILDREN AND THE CRIMINAL STATUTES -- 5. CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN THE CRIMINAL STATUTES -- 6. THE ENFORCEMENT OF SENTENCES AND ITS AFTERMATH -- 7. PAEDOPHILE SEX AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN THE LIGHT OF MORALITY AND LAW -- Index.
Abstract:
The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers refer to a group of miscellaneous Christian writings produced in the first and second centuries. The authors of these writings were considered by seventeenth century scholars to be the next generation of Apostles and as a result were named The Apostolic Fathers. Perceived by many scholars to be the most important collection of post-New Testament writings, a number of these texts were in fact considered for the Canon of the New Testament but later rejected. Their obvious significance stems from the fact that they are the first Christian writings produced outside the New Testament Canon and as such contain an essential insight into the development of the early Christian Church and Christian thinking. Much Christian Doctrine came, not from the New Testament, but from the writings produced by the early church and in particular the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. Therefore, these texts are crucial to an understanding of the shaping of Christian thought and Christian doctrine. This volume will provide readers with an overview of each of the eleven texts, together with a general introduction. Communicating the best recent scholarship to a broad audience, each chapter offers a treatment of the most controversial aspects of each text and discusses the theology of each of the writings in order to orient readers to the development of Christian thinking in the second century. Each article ends with a carefully chosen select bibliography to enable further reading.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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