Christian Legal Thought

Author : Michael W. McConnell,Robert Cochran,Angela C. Carmella
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300130065

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Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought by Michael W. McConnell,Robert Cochran,Angela C. Carmella Pdf

This book explores for the first time the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Eminent legal scholars—including Stephen Carter, Thomas Shaffer, Elizabeth Mensch, Gerard Bradley, and Marci Hamilton—describe how various Christian traditions, including the Catholic, Calvinist, Anabaptist, and Lutheran traditions, understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and human striving. The book reveals not only the diversity among Christian legal thinkers but also the richness of the Christian tradition as a source for intellectual and ethical approaches to legal inquiry. The contributors bring various perspectives to the subject. Some engage the prominent schools of legal thought: liberalism, legal realism, critical legal studies, feminism, critical race theory, and law and economics. Others address substantive areas, including environmental, criminal, contract, torts, and family law, as well as professional responsibility. Together the essays introduce a new school of legal thought that will make a signal contribution to contemporary discussions of law.

Author : Patrick M. Brennan,William S. Brewbaker
Publisher : Foundation Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Christianity and law
ISBN : 1609302311

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Christian Legal Thought by Patrick M. Brennan,William S. Brewbaker Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Foundation Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683286065

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Christian Legal Thought by Anonim Pdf

This text examines law and legal institutions through the broad lens of Christian thought, both Catholic and Protestant. The book addresses methodological issues in Christian legal scholarship (What makes legal thought "Christian"?); the relevance of Christian theological doctrines - such as creation, the Christian conception of the human person, the kingdom of God, and the natural and divine laws - for reflection on law; the significance of historical context for Christian legal thought; Christian reflection on important jurisprudential issues and concepts, such as equality, justice, rights, and the rule of law; and Christian perspectives on various legal subjects, such as contracts, torts, and property. The point of the book is less to prescribe what a Christian legal theory should entail in the way of outcomes than to use the Christian faith as a lens through which to understand, and reflect critically upon, law and legal institutions.

Author : Zachary R. Calo,Joshua Neoh,A. Keith Thompson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000813210

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Christianity, Ethics and the Law by Zachary R. Calo,Joshua Neoh,A. Keith Thompson Pdf

This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. The work introduces love as a way to advance the emergent conversation between constructive theology and jurisprudence that will also inform conversations in philosophy and political theory. Love is the central category for Christian ethical understanding. Yet, the growing field of law and religion, and relatedly law and theology, rarely addresses how love can shape our understanding of law. This reflects, in part, a common assumption that law and love stand in necessary tension. Love applies to the private and the personal. Law, by contrast, applies to the public and the political, realms governed by power. It is thus a mistake to envisage love as having anything but a negative relationship to law. This conclusion continues to govern Christian understandings of the meaning and vocation of law. The animating idea of this volume is that the concept of love can and should inform Christian legal thought. The project approaches this task from the perspective of both historical and constructive theology. Various contributions examine how such thinkers as Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin utilised love in their legal thought. These essays highlight often neglected aspects of the Christian tradition. Other contributions examine Christian love in light of contemporary legal topics including civility, forgiveness, and secularism. Love, the book proposes, not only matters for law but can transform the terms on which Christians understand and engage it. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of legal theory; law and religion; law and philosophy; legal history; theology and religious studies; and political theory.

Author : Michael P. Schutt
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781458749055

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Redeeming Law by Michael P. Schutt Pdf

BEING A CHRISTIAN LAWYER IS POSSIBLE, BUT NOT EASY. Law professor Michael Schutt believes that Christians belong in the legal profession and should regard it as a sacred calling. Schutt offers this book as a vital resource for reconceiving the theoretical foundations of law and gives practical guidance for maintaining integrity within a challenging profession. A hopeful and practical book for law students and those serving in the legal profession.

Author : Robert F. Cochran, Jr,Michael P. Moreland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000225099

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Christianity and Private Law by Robert F. Cochran, Jr,Michael P. Moreland Pdf

This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in private law theory, and this book contributes to that discussion by drawing on the historical, theological, and philosophical resources of the Christian tradition. The book begins with an introduction from the editors that lays out the understanding of "private law" and what distinguishes private law topics from other fields of law. This section includes two survey chapters on natural law and biblical sources. The remaining sections of the book move sequentially through the fields of property, contracts, and torts. Several chapters focus on historical sources and show the ways in which the evolution of legal doctrine in areas of private law has been heavily influenced by Christian thinkers. Other chapters draw out more contemporary and public policy-related implications for private law. While this book is focused on the relationship of Christianity to private law, it will be of broad interest to those who might not share that faith perspective. In particular, legal historians and philosophers of law will find much of interest in the original scholarship in this volume. The book will be attractive to teachers of law, political science, and theology. It will be of special interest to the many law faculty in property, contracts, and torts, as it provides a set of often overlooked historical and theoretical perspectives on these fields.

Author : John Anthony McGuckin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Christian civilization
ISBN : 0881414034

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The Ascent of Christian Law by John Anthony McGuckin Pdf

Author : John Witte, Jr.,Frank S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521697492

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Christianity and Law by John Witte, Jr.,Frank S. Alexander Pdf

What impact has Christianity had on the law from its beginnings to the present day? This introduction explores the main legal teachings of Western Christianity, set out in the texts and traditions of scripture and theology, philosophy and jurisprudence. It takes up the weightier matters of the law that Christianity has profoundly shaped - justice and mercy, rule and equity, discipline and love - as well as more technical topics of canon law, natural law, and state law. Some of these legal creations were wholly original to Christianity. Others were converted from Jewish and classical traditions. Still others were reformed by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophers. But whether original or reformed, these Christian teachings on law, politics and society have made and can continue to make fundamental contributions to modern law in the West and beyond.

Author : Paul Valliere,Randall A. Poole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000427936

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Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia by Paul Valliere,Randall A. Poole Pdf

This book, authored by an international group of scholars, focuses on a vibrant central current within the history of Russian legal thought: how Christianity, and theistic belief generally, has inspired the aspiration to the rule of law in Russia, informed Russian philosophies of law, and shaped legal practices. Following a substantial introduction to the phenomenon of Russian legal consciousness, the volume presents twelve concise, non-technical portraits of modern Russian jurists and philosophers of law whose thought was shaped significantly by Orthodox Christian faith or theistic belief. Also included are chapters on the role the Orthodox Church has played in the legal culture of Russia and on the contribution of modern Russian scholars to the critical investigation of Orthodox canon law. The collection embraces the most creative period of Russian legal thought—the century and a half from the later Enlightenment to the Russian emigration following the Bolshevik Revolution. This book will merit the attention of anyone interested in the connections between law and religion in modern times.

Author : Jean Porter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802846971

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Natural and Divine Law by Jean Porter Pdf

Though the concept of natural law took center stage during the Middle Ages, the theological aspects of this august intellectual tradition have been largely forgotten by the modern church. In this book ethicist Jean Porter shows the continuing significance of the natural law tradition for Christian ethics. Based on a careful analysis of natural law as it emerged in the medieval period, Porter's work explores several important scholastic theologians and canonists whose writings are not only worthy of study in their own right but also make important contributions to moral reflection today.

Author : Robert F. Cochran,David VanDrunen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830825738

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Law and the Bible by Robert F. Cochran,David VanDrunen Pdf

The Bible is full of law. Yet too often, Christians either pick and choose verses out of context to bolster existing positions, or assume that any moral judgment the Bible expresses should become the law of the land. Law and the Bible asks: What inspired light does the Bible shed on Christians’ participation in contemporary legal systems? It concludes that more often than not the Bible overturns our faulty assumptions and skewed commitments rather than bolsters them. In the process, God gives us greater insight into what all of life, including law, should be. Each chapter is cowritten by a legal professional and a theologian, and focuses on a key aspect of the biblical witness concerning civil or positive law--that is, law that human societies create to order their communities, implementing and enforcing it through civil government. A foundational text for legal professionals, law and prelaw students, and all who want to think in a faithfully Christian way about law and their relationship to it.

Author : Jeffrey A. Brauch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Christian philosophy
ISBN : 0837741068

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A Higher Law by Jeffrey A. Brauch Pdf

This third edition continues to further the quest to look beyond legal rules and institutions to the legal philosophies that shaped them. It includes excerpts from books, articles, and cases written by some of the greatest minds to have shaped our legal system. Several chapters have updated readings that address important cultural trends. For example, the discussion of human responsibility and criminal guilt includes a focus on the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on large numbers of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Similarly, the chapter on critical race theory has been updated to highlight the debate on race relations that has occurred since the 2012 shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin and the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement. Rights—whether constitutional or human—play a bigger role than ever in public discussion and in courtrooms. Thus, coverage of such rights has grown to include recent and high-profile cases. Finally, one chapter is wholly new, containing readings from a wide variety of perspectives on the use of biotechnologies that can alter the human genome for generations to come.--Publisher.

Author : Rafael Domingo,John Witte, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000039221

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Christianity and Global Law by Rafael Domingo,John Witte, Jr. Pdf

This book explores both historical and contemporary Christian sources and dimensions of global law and includes critical perspectives from various religious and philosophical traditions. Two dozen leading scholars discuss the constituent principles of this new global legal order historically, comparatively, and currently. The first part uses a historical-biographical approach to study a few of the major Christian architects of global law and transnational legal theory, from St. Paul to Jacques Maritain. The second part distills the deep Christian sources and dimensions of the main principles of global law, historically and today, separating out the distinct Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian contributions as appropriate. Finally, the authors address a number of pressing global issues and challenges, where a Christian-informed legal perspective can and should have deep purchase and influence. The work makes no claim that Christianity is the only historical shaper of global law, nor that it should monopolize the theory and practice of global law today. But the book does insist that Christianity, as one of the world’s great religions, has deep norms and practices, ideas and institutions, prophets and procedures that can be of benefit as the world struggles to find global legal resources to confront humanity’s greatest challenges. The volume will be an essential resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of law and religion, transnational law, legal philosophy, and legal history.

Author : Pamela Slotte,John D. Haskell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108474559

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Christianity and International Law by Pamela Slotte,John D. Haskell Pdf

This volume offers a many-sided introduction to the theme of Christianity and international law. Using a historical and contemporary perspective, it will appeal to readers interested in key topics of international law and how they intersect with Christianity.

Author : Thomas E. Baker,Timothy W. Floyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015040362298

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Can a Good Christian be a Good Lawyer? by Thomas E. Baker,Timothy W. Floyd Pdf

These 21 personal narratives answer the question of how each writer tries, sometimes but not always successfully, to be both a good Christian and a good lawyer. Reading about these real-life ethical dilemmas, conflicting loyalties, and personal difficulties should offer reassurance.