Last fall, I presented a paper at a conference, held at Villanova, about law, culture, and the work and thought of Pope Benedict XVI. The paper is now up at SSRN (and out in the Villanova Law Review) and called “Church, State, and the Practice of Love.” It’s kind of a weird paper, but some readers might be interested. Here’s the abstract:
In his first encyclical letter, Deus caritas est, Pope Benedict XVI describes the Church as a “community of love.” In this letter, he explores the “organized practice” love by and through the Church, and the relationship between this practice, on the one hand, and the Church’s “commitment to the just ordering of the State and society,” on the other. “God is love,” he writes. This paper considers the implications of this fact for the inescapably complicated nexus of church-state relations in our constitutional order. . . .
Posted by Rick Garnett on May 1, 2007 at 02:08 PM
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That’s weird, man, really weird.
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Posted by: Stuart Buck | May 1, 2007 3:33:50 PM