Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought
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Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought

  1. 544 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought

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Yes, you can access Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought by Michael W. McConnell, Robert Cochran, Angela C. Carmella in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Law Theory & Practice. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780300130065
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I. Christian Perspectives on Schools of Legal Thought
  6. Section 1. Enlightenment Liberalism
  7. Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, and People of Faith
  8. Liberal Hegemony and Religious Resistance: An Essay on Legal Theory
  9. Christianity and the Roots of Liberalism
  10. The Earthly Peace of the Liberal Republic
  11. Section 2. Legal Realism
  12. A Century of Skepticism
  13. Section 3. Critical Legal Studies
  14. Law and Belief: Critical Legal Studies and Philosophy of the Law-Idea
  15. Section 4. Critical Race Theory
  16. What’s Love Got to Do with It? Race Relations and the Second Great Commandment
  17. Reinhold Niebuhr and Critical Race Theory
  18. Hispanics, Catholicism, and the Legal Academy
  19. Section 5. Feminism
  20. Independence or Interdependence? A Christian Response to Liberal Feminists
  21. Citizen-Soldiers Are Like Priests: Feminism in Law and Theology
  22. Section 6. Law and Economics
  23. Law and Economics: An Apologia
  24. A Catholic Social Teaching Critique of Law and Economics
  25. Part II. Christian Traditions and the Law
  26. Christian Traditions, Culture, and Law
  27. Section 1. Synthesists: Reconciling Christ and Law
  28. A Catholic View of Law and Justice
  29. Natural Law
  30. Section 2. Conversionists: Christ Transforming Law
  31. The Calvinist Paradox of Distrust and Hope at the Constitutional Convention
  32. A Calvinist Perspective on the Place of Faith in Legal Scholarship
  33. Section 3. Separatists: Christ Against Law
  34. The Radical Reformation and the Jurisprudence of Forgiveness
  35. “Incendiaries of Commonwealths”: Baptists and Law
  36. On Liberty and Life in Babylon: A Pilgrim’s Pragmatic Proposal
  37. Section 4. Dualists: Christ and Law in Tension
  38. A House Divided? Anabaptist and Lutheran Perspectives on the Sword
  39. Making Our Home in the Works of God: Lutherans on the Civil Use of the Law
  40. Part III. Christian Perspectives on Substantive Areas of the Law
  41. God’s Joust, God’s Justice: An Illustration from the History of Marriage Law
  42. Human Nature and Criminal Responsibility: The Biblical View Restored
  43. Christianity and Environmental Law
  44. Can Legal Ethics Be Christian?
  45. A Historical Perspective on Anglo-American Contract Law
  46. Tort Law and Intermediate Communities: Calvinist and Catholic Insights
  47. Contributors
  48. Index