Christian perspectives on legal thought /
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 t...
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2001
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Table of Contents:
- Part one Christian perspectives on schools of legal thought
- Section 1
- Enlightenment liberalism
- Old liberalism, new liberalism, and people of faith / Michael W. McConnell
- Liberal hegemony and religious resistance : an essay on legal theory / Stephen L. Carter
- Christianity and the roots of liberalism / Elizabeth Mensch
- The earthly peace of the liberal republic / H. Jefferson Powell
- Section 2 A century of skepticism / Albert W. Alschuler
- Section 3 Critical legal studies Law and belief : critical legal studies and philosophy of the law idea / David S. Caudill
- Section 4 Critical race theory
- What's love got to do with it? Race relations and the second great commandment / W. Burlette Carter
- Reinhold Niebuhr and critical race theory / Davison M. Douglas
- Hispanics, Catholicism, and the legal academy / José Roberto Juddrez, Jr.
- Section 5 Feminism Independence or interdependence? A Christian response to liberal feminists / Teresa Stanton Collett
- Citizen-soldiers are like priests : feminism in law and theology / Leslie Griffin
- Section 6 Law and economics
- Law and economics : an apologia / Stephen M. Bainbridge
- A Catholic social teaching critique of law and economics / George E. Garvey
- Part two Christian traditions and the law
- Christian traditions, culture, and law / Robert F. Cochran, Jr.
- Section 1 Synthesists : reconciling Christ and law
- A Catholic view of law and justice / Angela C. Carmella
- Natural law / Gerard V. Bradley
- Section 2 Conversionists : Christ transforming law
- The Calvinist paradox of distrust and hope at the Constitutional Convention / Marci A. Hamilton
- A Calvinist perspective on the place of faith in legal scholarship / David S. Caudill
- Section 3 Separatists : Christ against law
- The radical Reformation and the jurisprudence of forgiveness / Thomas L. Shaffer
- "Incendiaries of commonwealths : Baptists and law / Timothy L. Hall
- On liberty and life in Babylon : a pilgrim's pragmatic proposal / Richard F. Duncan
- Section four Dualists : Christ and law in tension
- A house divided? Anabaptist and Lutheran perspectives on the sword / David M. Smolin
- Making our home in the works of God : Lutherans on the civil use of the law / Marie A. Failinger and Patrick R. Keifert
- Part three Christian perspectives on substantive areas of law
- God's joust, God's justice : an illustration from the history of marriage law / John Witte, Jr.
- Human nature and criminal responsibility : the biblical view restored / Phillip E. Johnson
- Christianity and environmental law / John Copeland Nagle
- Can legal ethics be Christian? / Joseph G. Allegretti
- A historical perspective on Anglo-American contract law / Catherine M.A. McCauliff
- Tort law and intermediate communities : Calvinist and Catholic insights / Robert F. Cochran, Jr.
