Christianity and Constitutionalism

Nicholas Aroney is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Queensland and Affiliated Faculty of the Centre for Law and Religion at Emory University. He has a law degree from the University of Queensland, a PhD from Monash University and has held visiting positions at Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Edinburgh, Sydney, Emory and Tilburg universities. He is the author of over 150 articles, book chapters and books on constitutional law, comparative federalism, law and religion, and religious freedom, including The Constitution of a Federal Commonwealth: The Making and Meaning of the Australian Constitution (2009), Shari'a in the West (OUP, 2010) and The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia: History, Principle and Interpretation (2015). In 2010 he also received of a prestigious four-year Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council to study comparative federalism. In 2017-18 he was appointed to the Australian Prime Minister's Expert Panel on Religious Freedomwhich submitted its report in May 2018. Ian Leigh is Emeritus Professor of Law at Durham University. He has held visiting positions at Osgoode Hall Law School and the universities of Otago, Florida, Virginia and Melbourne. He is author of around 100 articles, book chapters and books on public law and human rights including In From the Cold: National Security and Parliamentary Democracy (OUP, 1994), with Laurence Lustgarten, Law Politics and Local Democracy (OUP, 2000), Making Rights Real: the Human Rights Act in its First Decade (2008) with Roger Masterman, and Religious Freedom in the Liberal State (2nd ed, OUP, 2013), with Rex Ahdar. He is currently a British Academy Wolfson Research Professor working on a funded study 'Freedom of Conscience: Emerging Challenges and Future Prospects'.

Scholars of the American founding have long noted the influence of Reformed Protestant Christianity on the background assumptions of the framers—both about language and the nature of republican government—but this collection of essays provides more depth and insight on that topic than ever before. I highly recommend this book for both academics and general readers interested in the connections between Christianity and the Constitution.

• AcknowledgementsContributorsContents INTRODUCTION1 INTRODUCTION: Christianity and ConstitutionalismNicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh Part I: The Historical Influence of Christianity 2 OLD TESTAMENT: Torah and ConstitutionalismJonathan Burnside 3 NEW TESTAMENT: "But our constitution is in heaven": New Testament sketches on the people of God between divine law and earthly rulersDorothea H. Bertschmann 4 ANTIQUITY: Constantine and ConstitutionalismPeter Leithart 5 PATRISTIC ERA: Augustine's Constitutionalism: Citizenship, Common Good, and ConsentMary Keys & Colleen Mitchell 6 MIDDLE AGES: Canon Law Constitutionalism?Richard Helmholz 7 REFORMATION: The Protestant Reformation of ConstitutionalismJohn Witte Jr.8 MODERNITY: Understanding Law and Constitutionalism in Modernity: The Critical Contribution of English Reformation Public TheologyJoan Lockwood O'Donovan Part II: Christian Perspectives on Constitutionalism 9 SOVEREIGNTY: Dual, Plural and OneJoel Harrison10 RULE OF LAW: The Sacred Roots and Secular Shoots of the Supreme LawLi-ann Thio11 DEMOCRACY: Self-Government and the Kingdom of HeavenRichard Ekins 12 SEPARATION OF POWERS: Biblical Foundations of the Separation of Powers and the Catalytical Judicial RoleCarlos Bernal 13 RIGHTS: Christian Constitutional Rights?Julian Rivers 14 FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE: Freedom of Conscience Assessing the Christian ContributionIan Leigh 15 FEDERALISM: A Legal, Political and Religious ArchaeologyNicholas Aroney PART III: Christian Theology and Constitutionalism 16 REVELATION: Scripture and CovenantDavid VanDrunen 17 TRINITY: Against Leviathan: The Implications of Trinitarian Theology for ConstitutionalismDavid McIlroy 18 JUSTICE: Justice the Constitution and the Purpose of the Political CommunityJonathan Chaplin 19 CHRISTOLOGY: Christology and ConstitutionalismTracey Rowland 20 NATURAL LAW: Natural Law and Natural Right RevisitedJohn Milbank 21 SUBSIDIARITY: Origins and Contemporary AspectsIain T. Benson22 ESCHATOLOGY: The Greater Operation of LibertyDouglas Farrow