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Article: The idea of sovereignty is a very big subject, and it is examined with great range and energy by Jean Bethke Elshtain in Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (Basic Books), which is based on her Gifford Lectures of 2006.(While We're At It)(Book review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- November 1, 2008
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The idea of sovereignty is a very big subject, and it is examined with great range and energy by Jean Bethke Elshtain in Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (Basic Books), which is based on her Gifford Lectures of 2006. Thomas Hobbes made a hash of sovereignty in Leviathan, declaring the ruler to be above the law or, as Elshtain puts it, providing the rationale for an order (disorder) in which "laws take the form of the sovermgn's untrammeled will." For a just and humane alternative, Elshtain explores the Jewish-Christian understanding of a sovereign God who binds himself by covenant with his people and respects both his gift of human reason and the order of nature that is ...
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