Aquinas and Modernity: The Lost Promise of Natural Law

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 - 209 من الصفحات
In this startling book, Drury overturns the long-standing reputation of Thomas Aquinas as the most rational exponent of the Christian faith. She reveals that Aquinas as one of the most zealous Dominicans (Domini Canes) or Hounds of the Lord. The book contains incisive criticisms of Aquinas's reconciliation of faith and reason, his defense of papal supremacy, his justification of the Inquisition, his insistence on the persecution of Jews, and his veneration of celibacy. Far from being an antiquarian exercise, Drury shows why the study of Aquinas is relevant to the politics of the twenty-first century, where the primacy of faith over reason has experienced a revival. The current pope, Benedict XVI, relies heavily on Aquinas when prescribing cures for the ills of modernity. For Drury, religion is as incompatible with political moderation and sobriety in our time as it was in the thirteenth century. This is why she defends a secular version of Aquinas's theory of natural law_a theory that he betrayed in favor of what she calls 'the politics of salvation.'
 

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The Horrors of Theocracy
xxvii
The Fanaticism of Faith
3
The Lost Promise of Natural Law
6
The Subjugation of Reason
9
William of SaintAmour
11
Siger of Brabant
14
The Usurpation of the Double Truth
19
Aristotle and the Bible
23
The Sex Life of Adam and Eve
81
To Marry or to Burn?
84
Carnal Pleasure and the Contemplation of God
87
Those Pesky Polygamous Patriarchs
90
The Crimes of Celibacy
91
Abelard Heloise and Augustine
93
Aquinas and Modernity A Dialogue
101
The Silence of Conscience
111

Faith and Reason
25
The Authority of Scoundrels
30
Weapon against Modernity
31
The Antimodernist Oath
33
The Appeal of Fideism
34
Is Faith Impervious to Reason?
38
The Politics of Salvation
43
The Pragmatism of Natural Law
52
The Bigotry of Faith
54
Heathens Heretics and Jews
55
The Success and Failure of the Mosaic Law
62
Just War and Holy War
64
Death to Heretics
66
Aquinas and the Inquisition
69
Sin Sex and Celibacy
73
Eunuchs for Heaven
74
The Aristotelian Argument
76
Sharing the Agony
80
Separation of Church and State
113
Western Civilization and the Islamic Threat
116
Freedom and Licentiousness
124
The New Averroist Menace
126
The Disenchantment of Postmodernity
128
Recovering the Lost Promise of Natural Law
133
A Minimalist Reading
137
Abhorrence of Nature
140
Conscience
144
Conventionalism
149
Legal Positivism
153
Natural Law and Divine Revelation
160
Conclusion
163
Notes
167
Bibliography
195
Index
201
About the Author
207
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Shadia B. Drury is professor of philosophy and political science at the University of Regina in Canada, a Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, and director of the University of Regina Masters Program in Social and Political Thought.

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