Clashing Worldviews in the U.S. Supreme Court

Rehnquist vs. Blackmun

James Davids, Erik Gustafson, Sherena Arrington

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978753808
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Courts
• Index: Law

Contrasting two Protestant justices who hold distinctively different worldviews, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Harry A. Blackmun, this book explores how each came to hold his worldview, how each applied it in Supreme Court rulings, and how it led them to differing outcomes for liberty, equality, and justice. This clash of worldviews between Rehnquist, whose religious and philosophical influences were anchored in the Reformation, and Blackmun, whose Reformation theology was modified by Enlightenment philosophy, provide the context to examine the true nature of justice, liberty, and equality and to consider how such ideals can be maintained in a society with increasingly divergent worldviews.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Clashing Worldviews in the U.S. Supreme Court
• Clashing Worldviews in the U.S. Supreme Court: Rehnquist vs. Blackmun
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1
• Understanding Competing Worldviews in America
• Chapter 2
• The Theological Background and Worldview of Justice Harry Blackmun
• Chapter 3
• Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s Theology, Philosophy, and Worldview
• Chapter 4
• DeShaney in the Shadow of the Fourteenth Amendment
• Chapter 5
• Zobrest
• Chapter 6
• Kaiser Aetna and the Conservative vs. Progressive Battle of Property Rights
• Chapter 7
• Webster
• Chapter 8
• Bowers
• Chapter 9
• Two Differing Worldviews and Their Implications for Liberty, Equality, and Justice
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors