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A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious LibertyCorporate Religious Liberty in Church Teachings

A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty: Corporate Religious Liberty in Church Teachings [This chapter searches for normative resources in modern ecclesial statements on (corporate) religious liberty and assesses their contributions to the contemporary American debate. While the Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches have well-developed theories of religious freedom, their understanding of corporate religious liberty requires development with regard to the appropriate moral and legal subjects involved. On this point, the churches overlook ethically salient differences between group-types, precariously straddle the divide between individual and group rights, and reduce the Church into a mere voluntary association. The chapter concludes that churches must draw upon the Christian tradition’s group ontology so that they might understand to whom or to what corporate religious liberty applies.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious LibertyCorporate Religious Liberty in Church Teachings

Part of the Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Book Series
David, Edward A.
Springer Journals — Sep 22, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-56210-6
Pages
23 –60
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-56211-3_2
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Abstract

[This chapter searches for normative resources in modern ecclesial statements on (corporate) religious liberty and assesses their contributions to the contemporary American debate. While the Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches have well-developed theories of religious freedom, their understanding of corporate religious liberty requires development with regard to the appropriate moral and legal subjects involved. On this point, the churches overlook ethically salient differences between group-types, precariously straddle the divide between individual and group rights, and reduce the Church into a mere voluntary association. The chapter concludes that churches must draw upon the Christian tradition’s group ontology so that they might understand to whom or to what corporate religious liberty applies.]

Published: Sep 22, 2020

Keywords: Vatican II; Dignitatis humanae; World Council of Churches; Universal declaration of human rights; Religious freedom

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