The summer study program at Oxford will take place
July 7 – August 1, 2008
Two courses will be offered:
- Biblical and Qur’anic Law
- The Bible in Anglo-American Politics and Law
Each course will run for two consecutive weeks. Students may enroll for one individual course or for the entire Oxford Program. See Important Dates for more details.
| BIBLICAL AND QUR’ANIC LAW (3 Credits). |
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Compares the hermeneutics of Jewish and Christian uses of the laws and legal principles in the Bible with the Islamic use of the laws and legal principles in the Qur’an. Topics to be compared in the lectures or readings include the interpretative differences in the nature of general and special revelation, the relationship between reason and faith, human rights theories, the nature of the state and civil law, the modern nation-state, democracy and constitutionalism, and selected topics on criminal and civil law, including differences on religious crimes, economic prohibitions, marriage and divorce.
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| THE BIBLE IN ANGLO-AMERICAN POLITICS AND LAW (3 Credits). |
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Examines uses of the Bible in the literature of the founding era, with special emphasis on how the Bible informed notions of liberty, civic virtue, and political order. The course will analyze how the founding generation encountered, appropriated, grappled with, and ultimately, was shaped by the text sacred to the Christian faith. |
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