Law and faith in ancient Israel and in modern democratic statehood as search for socio-political wellbeing

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Lombaard, Christoffel Johannes Stephanus

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University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament

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In this contribution, the argument pits two cultural reflexes against one another. In modern democracies, religion is removed from the socio-political sphere; in ancient Israel, religion was inserted into the socio-political sphere. In both cases, the intention was the same: the socio-political wellbeing of the citizenry. Such a cultural comparison puts to question the false assumption in modern democracies, that a public sphere emptied of religion constitutes greater freedom.

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Relationship between law and faith, Sacralisation, Secularisation, Cultural relativity, Freedom

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Lombaard, C. 2021, 'Law and faith in ancient Israel and in modern democratic statehood as search for socio-political wellbeing', Scriptura, vol. 120, no. 1, pp. 1-19, doi : 10.7833/120-1-1992.