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Faith and Order The Reconciliation of Law and Religion

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ISBN-10: 0802848524

ISBN-13: 9780802848529

Edition: 1993

Authors: Harold J. Berman

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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 427
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Harold J. Berman was Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University, and Ames Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard University.

Preface
Introduction: Religious Dimensions of Law
Historical Themes
Why the History of Western Law is Not Written
The Religious Foundations of Western Law
Medieval English Equity
Law and Belief in Three Revolutions
The Transformation of Western Legal Philosophy in Lutheran Germany
The Religious Sources of General Contract Law: An Historical Perspective
The Interaction of Law and Religion in American Constitutional History
Religious Freedom and the Challenge of the Modern State
Sociological and Philosophical Themes
Some False Premises of Max Weber's Sociology of Law
Individualistic and Communitarian Theories of Justice: An Historical Approach
Law and Religion in the Development of a World Order
Toward an Integrative Jurisprudence: Politics, Morality, History
Theological, Prophetic, and Educational Themes
Law and Love
Judaic-Christian versus Pagan Scholarship
Law and History After the World Wars
The Crisis of Legal Education in America
Is There Such a Thing - Can There Be Such a Thing - as a Christian Law School?
Russian and Soviet Themes
Atheism and Christianity in Soviet Russia
The Use of Law to Guide People to Virtue: A Comparison of Soviet and U.S. Perspectives
The Weightier Matters of the Law: A Response to Solzhenitsyn
Christianity and Democracy in Soviet Russia
Acknowledgements
Index