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Feb 15, 2018 · The paradigm of global law, however, is based on the principles of solidarity among people and their necessities (as a main source of obligation). 104 Following our metaphor, we can say that international law focuses on the body and soul of law without taking into consideration the communicative spirit of the law. However, global law focuses basically on the communicative spirit of the law ...
- Rafael Domingo
- 2018
Jun 1, 2018 · However, just as international law today has rectified its course and is gradually becoming a global law, increasingly focused on the human person, so too canon law, to fulfill its evangelising ...
- Rafael Domingo
2018, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. This article explores potential applications of the body-soul-spirit metaphor in the legal realm. After a justification of the validity of the metaphor as a source of legal meaning, and an explanation of the body-soul-spirit trichotomy in light of St. Paul’s letters and Edith Stein’s writings, the author focuses on some current debates on which the ...
- Introduction: Spirituality, Religion, and Morality
- Approaching Law and Spirituality: Some Similarities
- The Spiritual Triad: Love, Communion, and Gift
- The Legal Triad: Justice, Agreement, and Right
- Deep Connectivity Between The Legal Triad and The Spiritual Triad
- Intentions and Values: Two Channels of Interaction Between Law and Spirituality
- Evolution of Law Through Spiritualization: Some Historical Examples
- Some New Challenges: New Technologies and Globalization
- Levels of Legal Spiritualization
- Conclusions
In recent years, scholars and scientists in different disciplines (sociology, medicine, business, and psychology, among others) have paid special attention to spirituality as a potential interconnecting factor of human and social development. They have argued that spirituality matters for informing decisions, guiding human activities, and promoting...
Law and spirituality can be broadly understood as practical arts, speculative sciences, and traditions. Both also reflect an experience and an attitude in human persons. Spirituality and law are systems in the sense that both are constituted by a set of interdependent principles, interacting procedures, and connected ritual elements forming a speci...
In the Christian tradition, to deal with spirituality means to speak of the Holy Spirit, and to speak of the Holy Spirit means to speak of love, communion, and gift. The Holy Spirit is the eternal mutual Love between the Father and the Son.36 For this reason, although God is Love and the source of all love,37 the Holy Spirit is especially called Lo...
If love, communion, and gift are the pillars of spirituality, then justice, agreement, and right are the three pillars of law. Justice is often identified with law because its achievement is the primary goal of the law and legal systems. Justice is both an aspiration and an intrinsic aspect of all legal systems. As Augustine once said, a political ...
The essential metadimensional aspect of spirituality supports the idea that although law is indeed a matter of justice, agreement, and rights, law is also, at least aspirationally, a matter of love, communion, and self-giving.56Let me explain. In addition to justice, human beings need love. And justice is not opposite to love. There is no real tens...
The two main bridges of practical interaction between the spiritual and the legal realms are intentions (individual or collective) and values (cultural intentions). Behind other channels of interaction such as customs, traditions, procedures, and ceremonies, there are, in the end, intentions and values. The spiritual intention of any human action o...
Most legal developments imply some degree of spiritualization of the law. Legal systems evolve through spiritualization in many different ways, such as (i) promoting the dematerialization of the legal system, (ii) encouraging the limitation of domination, (iii) inspiring the reduction of coercion, (iv) stimulating the primacy of human communion and...
Revolutionary changes in communication technologies and globalization have linked human beings in unimaginable ways in the past few decades. New technologies and globalization have substantially improved the capacity of human interaction, reducing the relevance of geographical space and distance, overcoming national boundaries, and ultimately uniti...
The explanation of the connection between law and spirituality from a theoretical perspective is insufficient. The use of the scientific method is required to verify that link and the evolution of law through spiritualization. Although this article is not properly scientific but explanatory, let me finish by providing a roadmap for potential scient...
The establishment of a just and fair legal system for a political community at the local, national, or supranational level is the ultimate achievement of law. Using coercion, among other tools, legal systems assure the inner cohesion required for the right development of political communities. Spirituality, however, cannot be left out of that task....
Jan 17, 2018 · Based on this metaphor, the author argues for respect for the law as a whole; the use of the spirit of foreign law by national legal systems; the living character of the constitutional body; the ...
7 hours ago · The leg has been attached to the body of an apparently white figure, whom one may surmise is still living, as one of the pontiffs seems to be taking a pulse”, she writes. Williams’ multifoliate analyses riff on this arresting image broadly frames its import within legal underpinnings of topics such as ownership of body parts and genetic material in US law and their deeply nuanced racial ...
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Feb 15, 2018 · Rafael Domingo, Spruill Family Research Professor, has an article, "Body, Soul, and Spirit of the Law: Towards a Holistic Legal Paradigm," in the February, 2018 issue of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. In the article, he explores potential applications of the body–soul–spirit metaphor in the legal realm.
