Book contents
- Pope Benedict XVI’s Legal Thought
- Law and Christianity
- Pope Benedict XVI’s Legal Thought
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 A Journey with Benedict XVI through the Spirit of Constitutionalism
- Part I Law, Reason, and Religion
- 2 Reality and Transcendence
- 3 Human Dignity Without God?
- 4 The Windows of Benedict XVI
- 5 The Secular State, Democracy, and Natural Law
- 6 From Regensburg to Berlin – Holiness and Reason
- 7 “To serve right and to fight wrong”*
- Part II Fundamental Rights and Freedom of Religion
- Part III Democracy in a Society of “Others”
- Contributors
- Index
5 - The Secular State, Democracy, and Natural Law
Benedict XVI’s Address to the Bundestag from the Perspective of Legal Ethics and Democracy Theory
from Part I - Law, Reason, and Religion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Pope Benedict XVI’s Legal Thought
- Law and Christianity
- Pope Benedict XVI’s Legal Thought
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 A Journey with Benedict XVI through the Spirit of Constitutionalism
- Part I Law, Reason, and Religion
- 2 Reality and Transcendence
- 3 Human Dignity Without God?
- 4 The Windows of Benedict XVI
- 5 The Secular State, Democracy, and Natural Law
- 6 From Regensburg to Berlin – Holiness and Reason
- 7 “To serve right and to fight wrong”*
- Part II Fundamental Rights and Freedom of Religion
- Part III Democracy in a Society of “Others”
- Contributors
- Index
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- Pope Benedict XVI's Legal ThoughtA Dialogue on the Foundation of Law, pp. 79 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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