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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42765-4 — Law, Love and Freedom Joshua Neoh Frontmatter More Information law, love and freedom Howdoesoneleadalifeoflaw,loveandfreedom?Thisinquiryhasverydeeproots in the Judeo–Christian tradition. Indeed, the divergent answers to this inquiry mark the transition from Judeo to Christian. This book returns to those roots to tracethetwistsandturnsthattheseideashavetakenastheymovefromthesacred tothesecular.Itrelatesourmostimportantmodeofsocialorganization,law,to two of our most cherished values, love and freedom. In this book, Joshua Neoh sketches the moral vision that underlies our modern legal order and traces our secularlegalideas(constitutionalismversusanarchism)totheirtheologicalorigins (monasticism versus antinomianism). Law, Love and Freedom brings together adiversecastofcharacters,includingPaulandLuther,AugustineandAquinas, monksandGnostics,andconstitutionalistsandanarchists.Thisbookisvaluableto alllawyers,philosophers,theologiansandhistorianswhoareinterestedinlawas ahumanisticdiscipline. Joshua Neoh is a tenured faculty member at the law school of the Australian NationalUniversity(ANU).HecompletedhisLLBattheANU,LLMatYale,and PhDatCambridge,andheldvisitingresearchpositionsatHarvardandOxford.He iscommittedtoaninterdisciplinarystudyoflaw,andhehaspublishedinthe(cid:30)elds oflawandreligion,lawandliterature,lawandculture,lawandphilosophy,and lawandthehumanities. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42765-4 — Law, Love and Freedom Joshua Neoh Frontmatter More Information LAWANDCHRISTIANITY SeriesEditor JohnWitte,Jr.,EmoryUniversity EditorialBoard NigelBiggar,UniversityofOxford MartaCartabia,ItalianConstitutionalCourt/UniversityofMilano-Bicocca SarahCoakley,UniversityofCambridge NormanDoe,CardiffUniversity RafaelDomingo,EmoryUniversity/UniversityofNavarra BrianFerme,Marcianum,Venice RichardW.Garnett,UniversityofNotreDame RobertP.George,PrincetonUniversity MaryAnnGlendon,HarvardUniversity KentGreenawalt,ColumbiaUniversity RobinGrif(cid:30)th-Jones,TempleChurch,London/King’sCollegeLondon GaryS.Hauk,EmoryUniversity R.H.Helmholz,UniversityofChicago MarkHillQC,InnerTemple,London/CardiffUniversity WolfgangHuber,BishopEmeritus,UnitedProtestantChurchofGermany/Universitiesof Heidelberg,Berlin,andStellenbosch MichaelW.McConnell,StanfordUniversity JohnMcGuckin,UnionTheologicalSeminary MarkA.Noll,UniversityofNotreDame JeremyWaldron,NewYorkUniversity/UniversityofOxford MichaelWelker,UniversityofHeidelberg TheLawandChristianityseriespublishescutting-edgeworkonCatholic,Protestant,and OrthodoxChristiancontributionstopublic,private,penal,andprocedurallawandlegal theory. The series aims to promote deep Christian re(cid:31)ection by leading scholars on the fundamentalsoflawandpolitics,tobuildfurtherecumenicallegalunderstandingacross Christian denominations, and to link and amplify the diverse and sometimes isolated Christianlegalvoices andvisionsatworkintheacademy. Workscollectedbytheseries includegroundbreakingmonographs,historicalandthematicanthologies,andtranslations byleadingscholarsaroundtheglobe. BooksintheSeries GreatChristianJuristsinFrenchHistoryOlivierDescampsandRafaelDomingo ChurchLawinModernity:TowardaTheoryofCanonLawBetweenNatureandCulture JudithHahn CommonLawandNaturalLawinAmerica:FromthePuritanstotheLegalRealists AndrewForsyth CarefortheWorld:LaudatoSi’andCatholicSocialThoughtinanEraofClimateCrisis FrankPasquale Church,State,andFamily:ReconcilingTraditionalTeachingsandModernLiberties JohnWitte,Jr © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42765-4 — Law, Love and Freedom Joshua Neoh Frontmatter More Information GreatChristianJuristsinSpanishHistoryRafaelDomingoandJavierMartinez-Torron UnderCaesar’sSword:HowChristiansRespondtoPersecutioneditedbyDanielPhilpottand TimothySamuelShah GodandtheIllegalAlienRobertW.Heimburger ChristianityandFamilyLawJohnWitte,Jr.andGaryS.Hauk ChristianityandNaturalLawNormanDoe GreatChristianJuristsinEnglishHistoryMarkHill,QCandR.H.Helmholz Agape,Justice,andLawRobertF.Cochran,JrandZacharyR.Calo Calvin’sPoliticalTheologyandthePublicEngagementoftheChurchMatthewJ.Tuininga GodandtheSecularLegalSystemRafaelDomingo HowMarriageBecameOneoftheSacramentsPhilipReynolds ChristianityandFreedom(VolumeI:HistoricalPerspectives,VolumeII:Contemporary Perspectives)editedbyTimothySamuelShahandAllenD.Hertzke TheWesternCaseforMonogamyOverPolygamyJohnWitte,Jr. TheDistinctivenessofReligioninAmericanLawKathleenA.Brady PopeBenedictXVI’sLegalThoughtMartaCartabiaandAndreaSimoncini © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42765-4 — Law, Love and Freedom Joshua Neoh Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42765-4 — Law, Love and Freedom Joshua Neoh Frontmatter More Information Law, Love and Freedom from the sacred to the secular JOSHUA NEOH AustralianNationalUniversity,Canberra © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42765-4 — Law, Love and Freedom Joshua Neoh Frontmatter More Information UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108427654 doi:10.1017/9781108564939 ©JoshuaNeoh2019 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2019 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainbyClaysLtd,ElcografS.p.A. AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-108-42765-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42765-4 — Law, Love and Freedom Joshua Neoh Frontmatter More Information Tomy(cid:30)rstlove. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42765-4 — Law, Love and Freedom Joshua Neoh Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42765-4 — Law, Love and Freedom Joshua Neoh Frontmatter More Information Contents Acknowledgments pagex Introduction 1 1 CosmologicalBeginning,EschatologicalEnd 9 2 ConceptualBipolarities 42 3 MethodologicalTurntoHistoricalNarrative 78 4 PriorNarrative:FromMonasticismtoConstitutionalism 98 5 CounterNarrative:FromAntinomianismtoAnarchism 133 6 ValuePluralismandtheSearchforCoherence 166 Conclusion 182 Bibliography 190 Index 203 ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42765-4 — Law, Love and Freedom Joshua Neoh Frontmatter More Information Acknowledgments Thegreatdelightofpublicationistheabilitytothankpeopleinprint.Ihave been waiting to thank Nigel Simmonds and Peter Cane for being such exemplary role models of what a scholar should be. I could only wish to be halfthekindofscholarsthattheyare.Ifthereisanyintellectualrigoratallin thisbook,Ihavelearneditallfromthem.Peter,whowasmyundergraduate thesissupervisorattheANU,sentmetoNigel,whobecamemydoctoralthesis supervisoratCambridge. Itisoftendif(cid:30)culttoaccountforacademicdebts,butthefollowingareeasy cases,forthedebtishuge.TonyConnollyandLeightonMcDonaldweremy (cid:30)rstteachersinjurisprudenceattheANU,whereIdidmyLLB.RobertBurt and Paul Kahn were the (cid:30)rst who taught me to see law from a theological perspectiveatthatmostlawlessofplacescalledtheYaleLawSchool,where Idid myLLM.Paul Babie blazed the trailfor law andreligion in Australia, andIhavefollowedinhistraileversince.Iwould nothave persisted inthis (cid:30)eld,butforPaul’sencouragement,whichkeptmegoing. ThisbookstartedlifeasaPhDthesisatCambridge.Iwouldnothavebeen able to get to Cambridge without the generous (cid:30)nancial support of the Cambridge Australia Trust and the institutional support of the ANU Law School, which gave me three years’ leave to complete the PhD. Stephen BottomleyandDonRothwell,whoweretheDeanandDeputyDeanatthat time, believed in me enough to let me go, and for that, I am truly grateful. SallyWheeler,thecurrentDean,acceptedthereturnoftheprodigalson. AtCambridge,MatthewKramerconvenedtheCambridgeForumforLegal and Political Philosophy, which became my primary academic community. The graduate student community in legal philosophy at Cambridge – John Adenitire, Raffel Fasel, Visa Kurki, Jyr-Jong Lin and Yalan Zhang – made doing legal philosophy fun. Jan Anton van Zanten and Yan Zi Au, despite x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org