Redeeming Law

by Michael P. Schutt
Redeeming Law
Author: Michael P. Schutt
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2009-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1458749053
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BEING A CHRISTIAN LAWYER IS POSSIBLE, BUT NOT EASY. Law professor Michael Schutt believes that Christians belong in the legal profession and should regard it as a sacred calling. Schutt offers this book as a vital resource for reconceiving the theoretical foundations of law and gives practical guidance for maintaining integrity within a challenging profession. A hopeful and practical book for law students and those serving in the legal profession.

Christian Legal Thought

by Patrick M. Brennan
Christian Legal Thought
Author: Patrick M. Brennan
Publisher: Foundation Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Christianity and law
ISBN: 9781609302313
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Hardbound - New, hardbound print book.

Christian Law

by Norman Doe
Christian Law
Author: Norman Doe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2013-09-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107006929
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Comparing church laws within ten Christian traditions worldwide, Christianity emerges as a religion of law as well as of faith.

Agape, Justice, and Law

by Robert F. Cochran, Jr
Agape, Justice, and Law
Author: Robert F. Cochran, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316812960
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In a provocative essay, philosopher Jeffrie G. Murphy asks: 'what would law be like if we organized it around the value of Christian love, and if we thought about and criticized law in terms of that value?'. This book brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to address that question. Scholars have given surprisingly little attention to assessing how the central Christian ethical category of love - agape - might impact the way we understand law. This book aims to fill that gap by investigating the relationship between agape and law in Scripture, theology, and jurisprudence, as well as applying these insights to contemporary debates in criminal law, tort law, elder law, immigration law, corporate law, intellectual property, and international relations. At a time when the discourse between Christian and other world views is more likely to be filled with hate than love, the implications of agape for law are crucial.

The Ascent of Christian Law

by John Anthony McGuckin
The Ascent of Christian Law
Author: John Anthony McGuckin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Christian civilization
ISBN: 9780881414035
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Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia

by Kjell Å Modéer
Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia
Author: Kjell Å Modéer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2020-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000201538
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This book presents a comprehensive history of law and religion in the Nordic context. The entwinement of law and religion in Scandinavia encompasses an unusual history, not widely known yet important for its impact on contemporary political and international relations in the region. The volume provides a holistic picture from the first written legal sources of the twelfth century to the law of the present secular welfare states. It recounts this history through biographical case studies. Taking the point of view of major influential figures in church, politics, university, and law, it thus presents the principal actors who served as catalysts in ecclesiastical and secular law through the centuries. This refreshing approach to legal history contributes to a new trend in historiography, particularly articulated by a younger generation of experienced Nordic scholars whose work is featured prominently in this volume. The collection will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal History and Law and Religion.

Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe

by James A. Brundage
Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe
Author: James A. Brundage
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2009-02-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0226077896
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This monumental study of medieval law and sexual conduct explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a comprehensive history of legal doctrines–covering the millennium from A.D. 500 to 1500–concerning a wide variety of sexual behavior, including marital sex, adultery, homosexuality, concubinage, prostitution, masturbation, and incest. His survey makes strikingly clear how the system of sexual control in a world we have half-forgotten has shaped the world in which we live today. The regulation of marriage and divorce as we know it today, together with the outlawing of bigamy and polygamy and the imposition of criminal sanctions on such activities as sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, and bestiality, are all based in large measure upon ideas and beliefs about sexual morality that became law in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. "Brundage's book is consistently learned, enormously useful, and frequently entertaining. It is the best we have on the relationships between theological norms, legal principles, and sexual practice."—Peter Iver Kaufman, Church History

Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought

by Michael W. McConnell
Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought
Author: Michael W. McConnell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 775
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0300130066
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This book explores for the first time the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Eminent legal scholars—including Stephen Carter, Thomas Shaffer, Elizabeth Mensch, Gerard Bradley, and Marci Hamilton—describe how various Christian traditions, including the Catholic, Calvinist, Anabaptist, and Lutheran traditions, understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and human striving. The book reveals not only the diversity among Christian legal thinkers but also the richness of the Christian tradition as a source for intellectual and ethical approaches to legal inquiry. The contributors bring various perspectives to the subject. Some engage the prominent schools of legal thought: liberalism, legal realism, critical legal studies, feminism, critical race theory, and law and economics. Others address substantive areas, including environmental, criminal, contract, torts, and family law, as well as professional responsibility. Together the essays introduce a new school of legal thought that will make a signal contribution to contemporary discussions of law.

Christianity and Law

by John Witte, Jr.
Christianity and Law
Author: John Witte, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-04-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521697491
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What impact has Christianity had on the law from its beginnings to the present day? This introduction explores the main legal teachings of Western Christianity, set out in the texts and traditions of scripture and theology, philosophy and jurisprudence. It takes up the weightier matters of the law that Christianity has profoundly shaped - justice and mercy, rule and equity, discipline and love - as well as more technical topics of canon law, natural law, and state law. Some of these legal creations were wholly original to Christianity. Others were converted from Jewish and classical traditions. Still others were reformed by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophers. But whether original or reformed, these Christian teachings on law, politics and society have made and can continue to make fundamental contributions to modern law in the West and beyond.