Edward A. David

The Oxford Journal of Law and Religion published a review of my monograph, A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty. Thanks to Michael Bradley for the generous — and critical — analysis: everything an author could hope for from a review!

David makes good on Palgrave’s promise to deliver fresh, insightful interventions. His retrieval and discussion of central planks of Aquinas’ moral, political, and legal philosophy—basic human goods, act analysis, group agency, and the four distinct kinds of order studied in diverse modes of inquiry—invites the unfamiliar reader to explore them. This book is a valuable entrée into both those important concepts and a vexed debate that would benefit from attending to David’s proposals.

OJLR

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A new law monograph from Hart Publishing also engages with my book. In A Principled Framework for the Autonomy of Religious Communities, Alex Deagon critiques my distinctions between religious and religiously-motivated secular actions (everything is religious, he claims). Nevertheless, Deagon thoughtfully affirms other parts of my approach, including its emphasis on ‘modest group realism’ (groups are more than the sum of their parts) and its theological commitments (the state should recognise the value, if not the truth, of religion). Do give Deagon’s book a read!

See earlier reviews of A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty here and here.