Politics and the Limits of Law – Secularizing the Political in Medieval Jewish …
Politics and the Limits of LawSecularizing the Political in Medieval Jewish Thought\nAuthor(s): Menachem Lorberbaum\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804740746, 978-0804740746\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the emergence of the fundamental political concepts of medieval Jewish thought, arguing that alongside the well known theocratic elements of the Bible there exists a vital tradition that conceives of politics as a necessary and legitimate domain of worldly activity that preceded religious law in the ordering of society.\n\n Since the Enlightenment, the separation of religion and state has been a central theme in Western political history and thought, a separation that upholds the freedom of conscience of the individual. In medieval political thought, however, the doctrine of the separation of religion and state played a much different role. On the one hand, it served to maintain the integrity of .
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