Tag: corporate religious liberty
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Oxford Workshop on Group Religious Freedom
It was a pleasure co-organising a workshop on group religious freedom with colleagues from Harvard Law and the Jagiellonian University. This month’s discussion enriched our understanding of this important area of religious liberty which so often struggles to account for group rights. Keep your eyes out for an edited volume on the topic in the…
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Book Contract: A Christian Ethic of Corporate Religious Freedom
Sometime earlier this year, two colleagues and I began a conversation. We noted our shared interests around the topic of corporate religious freedom — that is, the freedom of organisations to practice their religious beliefs. And, recognising our distinct disciplinary strengths (ethics, law, and theology), we decided to jointly author a monograph together. After shopping…
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New Frontiers and Emerging Challenges in Religious Liberty
Many thanks to Grzegorz Blicharz and the organizing committee for the kind invitation to participate in their upcoming conference on religious liberty. I’ll offer a Christian ethical analysis of recent developments in corporate religious liberty, with a focus upon the United States. So grateful to have the opportunity to dive back into this important topic.…
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Further reviews of A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty
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…
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Church Autonomy and the Corpus Mysticum Tradition
By Edward A. David McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life, University of Oxford 24 February 2023. A short paper for the Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture at Pusey House, Oxford Churches can be forgiven for describing themselves, like any other civil society organization, as “voluntary.” This Lockean portrayal, after all, dominates…
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Religious Liberty and Corporate Metaphysics
By Edward A. David McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life, University of Oxford 23 February 2023, Recollection Lecture, Pusey House, Oxford Introduction Thank you to the Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture for the kind invitation to speak today, ahead of a symposium dedicated to the topic of corporate persons. The aim…
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Church, State, and Virtue in Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo (2020)
To curb the spread of COVID-19, houses of worship in the State of New York were legally required to limit attendance at religious ceremonies. Two religious communities—the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and the Orthodox Jewish organization, Agudath Israel of America—asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. This article provides a theological interpretation of the…
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Dissertation Prize 2022: Academy of Catholic Theology
During the 2022 annual conference of the Academy of Catholic Theology, my DPhil thesis on corporate religious liberty received an honourable mention for the Academy’s Dissertation Prize, awarded to early career academics. We are pleased to announce that Prof. Rachel Coleman won the ACT Dissertation Prize, and Fr. Joseph Van House, O.Cist., and Dr. Edward…
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More reviews of A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty
Reviews of my book can now be found in Studies in Christian Ethics and the Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Theory. My sincere thanks to Allen Calhoun and David Hodge for their generous words and insights. Their reviews can be found through the links above—though, journal subscriptions may be necessary. The…
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Podcast: Group ontology and religious freedom with the New Books Network
Recently, Ryan Shelton (@ryoldfashioned), a host of the New Books Network (NBN), interviewed me for the network’s New Books in Christian Studies channel. I came across the NBN through Twitter and was immediately impressed by their user experience (clean, intelligent) and remit (to raise the level of public discourse by introducing scholars to a wide…
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