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A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious LibertyIntegrating the Strong Group Agency of the Church

A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty: Integrating the Strong Group Agency of the... [This chapter considers how the Church—when understood as a metaphysical person—could be integrated into an approach to corporate religious liberty that primarily views groups as social actions, not corporate moral persons. Drawing largely upon Henri de Lubac and Jacques Maritain, the chapter considers the extent to which Catholic ecclesiology meets a stipulative definition of strong group agency. It engages with medieval interpretations of the corpus mysticum and with the contemporary secularization of John Locke’s “true church.” This historical survey helps explain why the Church is not commonly described in strongly metaphysical terms today and how this situation affects proposals to protect church freedoms. The chapter concludes by examining the U.S. Supreme Court case Corporation of the Presiding Bishop v. Amos (1987) to illustrate how the theological person of the Church could be integrated into, and thus accounted for by, a Christian approach to corporate religious liberty.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious LibertyIntegrating the Strong Group Agency of the Church

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
171 –215
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-56211-3_6
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Abstract

[This chapter considers how the Church—when understood as a metaphysical person—could be integrated into an approach to corporate religious liberty that primarily views groups as social actions, not corporate moral persons. Drawing largely upon Henri de Lubac and Jacques Maritain, the chapter considers the extent to which Catholic ecclesiology meets a stipulative definition of strong group agency. It engages with medieval interpretations of the corpus mysticum and with the contemporary secularization of John Locke’s “true church.” This historical survey helps explain why the Church is not commonly described in strongly metaphysical terms today and how this situation affects proposals to protect church freedoms. The chapter concludes by examining the U.S. Supreme Court case Corporation of the Presiding Bishop v. Amos (1987) to illustrate how the theological person of the Church could be integrated into, and thus accounted for by, a Christian approach to corporate religious liberty.]

Published: Sep 22, 2020

Keywords: Eucharist; Medieval political theology; Secularism; John Locke; Church and state; Corporation of the Presiding Bishop v. Amos

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