Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life Volume 6 Series Editor C. Allen Speight, Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, USA Associate Editors Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Boston University, Boston, USA M. David Eckel, Boston University, Boston, USA Editorial Board Andrew Chignell, Cornell University, USA Paul Davies, University of Sussex, UK Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA Parimal Patil, Harvard University, USA Eleonore Stump, St. Louis University Alan Wolfe, Boston College, USA Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University (Emeritus), USA Dean Zimmerman, Rutgers University, USA
Aims and Scope Boston University Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life is an interdisciplinary scholarly series which publishes seminal papers on topics of pressing and perennial interest at the intersection of philosophy, religion and public life. The series is especially interested in interdisciplinary work that illuminates questions of value, truth, reality and meaning, as well as topics in the relevant fields which have a particular intersection with public life (for example, philosophical and religious perspectives on contemporary issues in ethical and political philosophy). In addition, the series serves as a prominent forum for important academic work emerging within the specific sub-discipline of the philosophy of religion. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8881
C. Allen Speight Michael Zank Editors Politics, Religion and Political Theology
Editors C. Allen Speight Department of Philosophy Boston University Boston, MA, USA Michael Zank Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies Boston University Boston, MA, USA ISSN 2352-8206 ISSN 2352-8214 (electronic) Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life ISBN 978-94-024-1080-8 ISBN 978-94-024-1082-2 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-024-1082-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017942817 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: The Free at Last sculpture stands in the midst of Boston University s Marsh Plaza, and is a memorial to the life and work of BU s most famous students of philosophy and religion, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Science+Business Media B.V. The registered company address is: Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 GX Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Acknowledgments This is the third volume of collected papers to appear in the renewed series Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life. It is, like the first two (Justice, Responsibility and Reconciliation in the Wake of Conflict and Narrative, Philosophy and Life), the result of a set of collaborations that first emerged around the annual lecture series in the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University. Particular thanks go to Paul Goldberg, who helped with the editorial work on the volume, and Lynn Niizawa, who was the Institute s graduate assistant at the time of the lecture series from which this volume emerged. We d also like to thank the editors at Springer who have helped with this volume and series, especially Anita van der Linden-Rachmat, Elvire Verbraak and Cristina dos Santos. v
Contents 1 Introduction: Politics, Religion and Political Theology: Historical and Contemporary Questions... 1 C. Allen Speight and Michael Zank Part I Authority, Conscience, Toleration, Secularism: Theologico-Political Questions from the Tradition and their Contemporary Importance 2 The Authority of Conscience in Early Modern England and New England: A Reconsideration... 7 David D. Hall 3 From Augustine to Locke and Spinoza: Answering the Christian Case Against Religious Liberty... 19 Edwin Curley 4 Rethinking Hobbes and Locke on Toleration... 39 Susanne Sreedhar 5 The Inevitable Entanglement of Religion and Politics... 57 Michael Allen Gillespie 6 The Sociality of Conscience and Rawls s Liberalism... 75 Timothy L. Brownlee 7 Liberal Neutrality, Religion and the Good... 93 Cécile Laborde 8 Redefining Secularism? Philosophical Perspectives on Secularism, Post-Secularism and the Contemporary Relation Between Politics and Religion... 113 C. Allen Speight vii
viii Contents Part II Political Theology: Origins and Return? 9 Theocracy and the Idea of God: Salomon Maimon on Judaism Between True Religion and Despotism... 125 Benjamin Pollock 10 Politics, Religion and Violence: The Maccabean Wars... 151 Jan Assmann 11 The Discourse of the Enemy... 165 Martin Kavka 12 Merely Political: Waldemar Gurian and Carl Schmitt s Early Political- Theological Divide... 177 Theresa A. Cooney 13 Torah v. Jewish Law: A Genre-Critical Approach to the Political Theology of Reappropriation... 195 Michael Zank 14 The Return of Political Theology: The Scarf Affair in Comparative Constitutional Perspective in France, Germany and Turkey... 223 Seyla Benhabib Index... 241