Author : Michael P. Schutt
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2009-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 1458749053
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.
Author : Patrick M. Brennan
Publisher : Foundation Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Christianity and law
ISBN : 9781609302313
Hardbound - New, hardbound print book.
Author : John Anthony McGuckin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Christian civilization
ISBN : 9780881414035
Author : Kjell Å Modéer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1000201538
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.
Author : John Witte, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521697491
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.
Author : David C. Gibbs
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Church and state
ISBN :
"Is America still One Nation Under God? Our modern courts seem to say 'No', as do the secular media and the public schools. But what do the facts of history say? Here are ten incontrovertible, heavily documented, and politically incorrect historical facts that prove Christianity played a pivotal role in uniquely shaping the most free, prosperous, and powerful nation in history." -- from back cover.
Author : Jason C. Meyer
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 080544842X
A study of Paul's theology in the Bible, focusing on his view of the old covenant God made with Israel and the new covenant Jesus announced at the Last Supper.
Author : James A. Brundage
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226077896
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
Author : Robert F. Cochran, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316812960
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.
Author : Amanda Hollis-Brusky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190637269
The Frankfurter adage (or why legal movements need support structures) -- The genesis of the Christian conservative legal movement & the road not taken -- In the beginning : creation stories -- Human capital (or, "a generation of Christian attorneys") -- Social & cultural capital (or "credibility capital") -- Intellectual capital : preaching to convert or to the converted? -- At the apex of the support structure pyramid.
