Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought,9780300087505

Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought

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ISBN13: 9780300087505
ISBN10: 0300087500
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2001-11-10
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Harold J. Berman
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
Part One Christian Perspectives on Schools of Legal Thought
Enlightenment Liberalism
Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, and People of Faith
5(20)
Michael W. McConnell
Liberal Hegemony and Religious Resistance: An Essay on Legal Theory
25(29)
Stephen L. Carter
Christianity and the Roots of Liberalism
54(19)
Elizabeth Mensch
The Earthly Peace of the Liberal Republic
73(21)
H. Jefferson Powell
Legal Realism
A Century of Skepticism
94(15)
Albert W. Alschuler
Critical Legal Studies
Law and Belief: Critical Legal Studies and Philosophy of the Law-Idea
109(24)
David S. Caudill
Critical Race Theory
What's Love Got to Do with It? Race Relations and the Second Great Commandment
133(16)
W. Burlette Carter
Reinhold Niebuhr and Critical Race Theory
149(14)
Davison M. Douglas
Hispanics, Catholicism, and the Legal Academy
163(15)
Jose Roberto Juarez, Jr.
Feminism
Independence or Interdependence? A Christian Response to Liberal Feminists
178(16)
Teresa Stanton Collett
Citizen-Soldiers Are Like Priests: Feminism in Law and Theology
194(14)
Leslie Griffin
Law and Economics
Law and Economics: An Apologia
208(16)
Stephen M. Bainbridge
A Catholic Social Teaching Critique of Law and Economics
224(18)
George E. Garvey
Part Two Christian Traditions and the Law
Christian Traditions, Culture, and Law
242(13)
Robert F. Cochran, Jr.
Synthesists: Reconciling Christ and Law
A Catholic View of Law and Justice
255(22)
Angela C. Carmella
Natural Law
277(16)
Gerard V. Bradley
Conversionists: Christ Transforming Law
The Calvinist Paradox of Distrust and Hope at the Constitutional Convention
293(14)
Marci A. Hamilton
A Calvinist Perspective on the Place of Faith in Legal Scholarship
307(14)
David S. Caudill
Separatists: Christ Against Law
The Redical Reformation and the Jurisprudence of Forgiveness
321(19)
Thomas L. Shaffer
``Incendiaries of Commonwealths'': Baptists and Law
340(14)
Timothy L. Hall
On Liberty and Life in Babylon: A Pilgrim's Pragmatic Proposal
354(16)
Richard F. Duncan
Dualists: Christ and Law in Tension
A House Divided? Anabaptist and Lutheran Perspectives on the Sword
370(16)
David M. Smolin
Making Our Home in the Works of God: Lutherans on the Civil Use of the Law
386(20)
Marie A. Failinger
Patrick R. Keifert
Part Three Christian Perspectives on Substantive Areas of the Law
God's Joust, God's Justice: An Illustration from the History of Marriage Law
406(20)
John Witte, Jr.
Human Nature and Criminal Responsibility: The Biblical View Restored
426(9)
Phillip E. Johnson
Christianity and Environmental Law
435(18)
John Copeland Nagle
Can Legal Ethics Be Christian?
453(17)
Joseph G. Allegretti
A Historical Perspective on Anglo-American Contract Law
470(16)
Catherine M.A. Mc Cauliff
Tort Law and Intermediate Communities: Calvinist and Catholic Insights
486(19)
Robert F. Cochran, Jr.
Contributors 505(6)
Index 511

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