The Ten Commandments in History: Mosaic Paradigms for a Well-Ordered Society

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Foreword	p. vii
Editor's Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Classical and Medieval
The Ten Commandments, Ancient and Modern	p. 3
Philo Judaeus: A Decalogue in Balance	p. 11
Saint Gregory of Palamas: The Christian Transformation	p. 27
Richard Rolle: The Decalogue of an English Hermit	p. 35
King Alfred: The Decalogue and Anglo-American Law	p. 46
Ramon Lull: A Decalogue of Medieval Reasons	p. 50
Thomas Aquinas: Firmness and Flexibility in the Decalogue	p. 62
Reformation
Girolamo Savonarola: The Decalogue of a Fanatic	p. 81
John Wycliffe: A Powerful Original	p. 84
Martin Luther: A Decalogue of Faith	p. 93
John Calvin: The Logic of the Law	p. 107
Paracelsus: Commandments without Stone	p. 119
Joseph Waite: Ecstasies of the Puritan Heart	p. 128
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke	p. 134
Jonathan Edwards: The Commandment of Love	p. 145
Modern
Montesquieu: The Decalogue of a Philosophe	p. 155
Immanuel Kant: A Critical Decalogue	p. 163
Thomas Jefferson: The Decalogues of a Civil Religion	p. 170
Jeremy Bentham: Blunt Critic of the Decalogue	p. 185
A Diversity of Rationalists: Montaigne, Pascal, Spinoza, and Hegel	p. 196
Nietzsche and After: The Lastingness of the Ten Commandments	p. 205
Selected Sources	p. 215
Index	p. 218
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