The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea

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The Law of God is Brague's second magisterial work of intellectual history. The first, The Wisdom of the World (2003), investigated the history of Ideally, in that case, the book seems to be both an obvious primer and launching pad for further scholarship.”—Times Higher Education Supplement. Rémi Brague's The Law of God is the second part of a larger philosophical project that seeks to uncover and explain the origins and development of modern In The Law of God, Rémi Brague argues that, historically speaking (i.e., apart from all utopian dreams), there in fact always has been a There are moments, reading The Law of God, when one wonders if anyone since Aquinas has known Aquinas' sources as well as Brague does. The list of Part One of a symposium on Rémi Brague's The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). Excerpt from The law of God: these words conjure an image of Moses breaking the Brague masterfully describes the differing conceptions of divine law in The law of God: these words conjure an image of Moses breaking the tablets at Mount Sinai, but the history of the alliance between law and divinity is so much The law of God: these words conjure an image of Moses breaking the tablets at Mount Sinai, but the history of the alliance between law and divinity is so much “Brague's sense of intellectual adventure is what makes his work genuinely exciting to read. The Law of God offers a challenge that anyone concerned with