Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought

, by Edited by Michael W. McConnell and Angela C. Carmella; With a foreword by HaroldJ. Berman

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ISBN: 9780300087505 | 0300087500
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 11/10/2001

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Foreword

Harold J. Berman

Acknowledgments

Introduction

xvii

Part One Christian Perspectives on Schools of Legal Thought

Enlightenment Liberalism

Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, and People of Faith

(20)

Michael W. McConnell

Liberal Hegemony and Religious Resistance: An Essay on Legal Theory

(29)

Stephen L. Carter

Christianity and the Roots of Liberalism

(19)

Elizabeth Mensch

The Earthly Peace of the Liberal Republic

(21)

H. Jefferson Powell

Legal Realism

A Century of Skepticism

(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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