Rafael Domingo, Full Professor of Law, researcher of the Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Navarra and professor at Emory University (USA), has published the book 'God and the Legal Order'. The work is part of the Cambridge Studies in Law and Christianity series.

Professor Domingo's goal is to present a coherent constitutional framework for the protection of the rights to religion and freedom of conscience in an era of diversity, interdependence and secularization.

He opposes both the traditional religiousapproach and the current liberal view of religious freedom. "The former is inevitably exclusivist, while the latter is inevitably reductionist," he says.

Specific respect actions

Instead, it offers a third way: a theistically oriented conception of the secular legal system that is capable of adopting non-theistic approaches.

From agreement with Professor Domingo, "secular legal systems must treat God, religion and conscience with respect. Respect requires not only positive feelings or deference toward these realities, but also specific actions that express and reflect that appreciation."

"Of the secular legal system, in the case of God, respect requires recognition; in the case of religion, tolerance; and in the case of conscience, the. accommodation. And of citizens, in the case of God, respect requires free accredited specialization and invocation; In the case of religion, free exercise and internship; In the case of conscience, moral autonomy."

graduate D. in Law, Rafael Domingo has been a lecturer at Roman Law at Universidad de Cantabria and Universidad de Navarra. He directed the Chair Garrigues de Derecho Global from its creation in 2003 until 2009, and was founder and director of The Global Law Collection of publishing house Thomson Reuters Aranzadi. He has also spent several periods at various foreign universities such as the University of Munich (Germany), Columbia University (USA) and the University of Rome-La Sapienza (Italy).