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Law: Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior. Law helps to maintain and protect people's rights. See also Rights, Society, State, Jurisdiction.
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Karl Barth on Law - Dictionary of Arguments

Brocker I 236
Def Law/Barth: "that with which he [sc. God] does justice to himself". (1)
Barth: From this theological insight follows "a very specific political problem and task", namely "the connection between justification and law in all its relevance for that of church and state".(2)
The believer knows that the right that every real claim a person has to the other and to others is under the special protection of the gracious God. […] He cannot escape the question of human rights. He can only want and affirm the Rule of Law.(3)
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, >Ultimate Justification, >State, >Society, >Theology, >Rule of law.

1. Karl Barth, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik II/1. Die Lehre von Gott, Zürich 61982 (zuerst 1940). S. 429
2. Ebenda S. 432
2. Ebenda S. 434f.

Georg Pfleiderer, „Karl Barth, Rechtfertigung und Recht 1938)“ in: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018.

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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Barth, Karl
Brocker I
Manfred Brocker
Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018


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