Open AccessLAW AND FAITH IN ANCIENT ISRAEL AND IN MODERN DEMOCRATIC STATEHOOD AS SEARCH FOR SOCIO-POLITICAL WELLBEING
Author(s) -
Christo Lombaard
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
scriptura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2305-445X
pISSN - 0254-1807
DOI - 10.7833/120-1-1992
Subject(s) - public sphere , politics , democracy , argument (complex analysis) , faith , law , political science , sociology , political economy , epistemology , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry
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.