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Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought

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ISBN-10: 0300087500

ISBN-13: 9780300087505

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michael W. McConnell, Angela C. Carmella, Robert Cochran, Robert Cochran

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This text explores the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Legal scholars describe how various Christian traditions understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and striving.
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Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.92" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Christian Perspectives on Schools of Legal Thought
Enlightenment Liberalism
Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, and People of Faith
Liberal Hegemony and Religious Resistance; An Essay on Legal Theory
Christianity and the Roots of Liberalism
The Earthly Peace of the Liberal Republic
Legal Realism
A Century of Skepticism
Critical Legal Studies
Law and Belief: Critical Legal Studies and Philosophy of the Law-Idea
Critical Race Theory
What's Love Got to Do with It? Race Relations and the Second Great Commandment
Reinhold Niebuhr and Critical Race Theory
Hispanics, Catholicism, and the Legal Academy
Feminism
Independence or Interdependence? A Christian Response to Liberal Feminists
Citizen-Soldiers Are Like Priests: Feminism in Law and Theology
Law and Economics
Law and Economics: An Apologia
A Catholic Social Teaching Critique of Law and Economics
Christian, Traditions and the Law
Christian Traditions, Culture, and Law
Synthesists: Reconciling Christ and Law
A Catholic View of Law and Justice
Natural Law
Conversionists: Christ Transforming Law
The Calvinist Paradox of Distrust and Hope at the Constitutional Convention
A Calvinist Perspective on the Place of Faith in Legal Scholarship
Separatists: Christ Against Law
The Radical Reformation and the Jurisprudence of Forgiveness
"Incendiaries of Commonwealths": Baptists and Law
On Liberty and Life in Babylon: A Pilgrim's Pragmatic Proposal
Dualists: Christ and Law in Tension
A House Divided? Anabaptist and Lutheran Perspectives on the Sword
Making Our Home in the Works of God: Lutherans on the Civil Use of the Law
Christian Perspectives on Substantive Areas of the Law
God's Joust, God's Justice: An Illustration from the History of Marriage Law
Human Nature and Criminal Responsibility: The Biblical View Restored
Christianity and Environmental Law
Can Legal Ethics Be Christian?
A Historical Perspective on Anglo-American Contract Law
Tort Law and Intermediate Communities: Calvinist and Catholic Insights
Contributors
Index