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On Laws

On Laws

Hardcover

Series: Fathers of the Church Medieval Continuations, Book 25

General Christianity

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ISBN10: 0813241707
ISBN13: 9780813241708
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: Aug 21 2026
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.61 Width: 5.61 Depth: 8.61
Language: English

William of Auvergne was a long-reigning bishop of Paris (1228-1249) with notable political influence, wide intellectual interests, and an appetite for ideological contest. William's On Laws (De legibus) is a major treatise on the Law of Moses, its nature and purpose in ancient Judaism and contemporary Christianity. William's fundamental objective in the work is to show the abiding power of the Law, including its ritual and other seemingly non-moral commands, as a counterforce to perennially recurring idolatries. In this, he shows his debt to, but also his distance from, Maimonides, whose Guide of the Perplexed had, in William's time, only recently appeared (c. 1223) in a partial Latin translation. Along the way, On Laws includes lengthy sections on non-literal biblical interpretation and its abuses; on the life of Muhammad and the law of Islam; and on contemporary superstition, sorcery, and paganism.

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