Author: Norman Doe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107006929
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Comparing church laws within ten Christian traditions worldwide, Christianity emerges as a religion of law as well as of faith.
Christianity and Law
Author: John Witte, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521697491
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521697491
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Christianity and Natural Law
Author: Norman Doe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107186447
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book compares historical and modern natural law ideas across global Christian traditions and explores their use in church law.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107186447
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book compares historical and modern natural law ideas across global Christian traditions and explores their use in church law.
Christianity and International Law
Author: Pamela Slotte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108642950
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
This cross-disciplinary collaboration offers historical and contemporary scholarship exploring the interface of Christianity and international law. Christianity and International Law aims to understand and move past arguments, narratives and tropes that commonly frame law-religion studies in global governance. Readers are introduced to a range of confessional and critical perspectives explicitly engaging a diverse range of methodological and theoretical orientations to rethink how we experience and find ourselves caught within the phenomena of Christianity and international law.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108642950
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
This cross-disciplinary collaboration offers historical and contemporary scholarship exploring the interface of Christianity and international law. Christianity and International Law aims to understand and move past arguments, narratives and tropes that commonly frame law-religion studies in global governance. Readers are introduced to a range of confessional and critical perspectives explicitly engaging a diverse range of methodological and theoretical orientations to rethink how we experience and find ourselves caught within the phenomena of Christianity and international law.
Christian Legal Thought
Author: Patrick M. Brennan
Publisher: Foundation Press
ISBN: 9781609302313
Category : Christianity and law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hardbound - New, hardbound print book.
Publisher: Foundation Press
ISBN: 9781609302313
Category : Christianity and law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hardbound - New, hardbound print book.
Agape, Justice, and Law
Author: Robert F. Cochran, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316812960
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316812960
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
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.
Christianity and Private Law
Author: Robert Cochran, Jr
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000225097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in private law theory, and this book contributes to that discussion by drawing on the historical, theological, and philosophical resources of the Christian tradition. The book begins with an introduction from the editors that lays out the understanding of "private law" and what distinguishes private law topics from other fields of law. This section includes two survey chapters on natural law and biblical sources. The remaining sections of the book move sequentially through the fields of property, contracts, and torts. Several chapters focus on historical sources and show the ways in which the evolution of legal doctrine in areas of private law has been heavily influenced by Christian thinkers. Other chapters draw out more contemporary and public policy-related implications for private law. While this book is focused on the relationship of Christianity to private law, it will be of broad interest to those who might not share that faith perspective. In particular, legal historians and philosophers of law will find much of interest in the original scholarship in this volume. The book will be attractive to teachers of law, political science, and theology. It will be of special interest to the many law faculty in property, contracts, and torts, as it provides a set of often overlooked historical and theoretical perspectives on these fields.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000225097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in private law theory, and this book contributes to that discussion by drawing on the historical, theological, and philosophical resources of the Christian tradition. The book begins with an introduction from the editors that lays out the understanding of "private law" and what distinguishes private law topics from other fields of law. This section includes two survey chapters on natural law and biblical sources. The remaining sections of the book move sequentially through the fields of property, contracts, and torts. Several chapters focus on historical sources and show the ways in which the evolution of legal doctrine in areas of private law has been heavily influenced by Christian thinkers. Other chapters draw out more contemporary and public policy-related implications for private law. While this book is focused on the relationship of Christianity to private law, it will be of broad interest to those who might not share that faith perspective. In particular, legal historians and philosophers of law will find much of interest in the original scholarship in this volume. The book will be attractive to teachers of law, political science, and theology. It will be of special interest to the many law faculty in property, contracts, and torts, as it provides a set of often overlooked historical and theoretical perspectives on these fields.
Christianity and the Laws of Conscience
Author: Jeffrey B. Hammond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108835384
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
This book explores the Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience for both scholarly and educated general audiences.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108835384
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
This book explores the Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience for both scholarly and educated general audiences.
The Ascent of Christian Law
Author: John Anthony McGuckin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881414035
Category : Christian civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881414035
Category : Christian civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Law and Lawlessness in Early Judaism and Early Christianity
Author: David Lincicum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783161567094
Category : Jewish law
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
According to a persistent popular stereotype, early Judaism is seen as a "legalistic" religious tradition, in contrast to early Christianity, which seeks to obviate and so to supersede, annul, or abrogate Jewish law. Although scholars have known better since the surge of interest in the question of the law in post-Holocaust academic circles, the complex stances of both early Judaism and early Christianity toward questions of law observance have resisted easy resolution or sweeping generalizations. The essays in this volume aim to bring to the fore the legalistic and antinomian dimensions in both traditions, with a variety of contributions that examine the formative centuries of these two great religions and thier legal traditions. They explore how law and lawlessness are in tension throughout this early, formative period, and not finally resolved in one direction or the other.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783161567094
Category : Jewish law
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
According to a persistent popular stereotype, early Judaism is seen as a "legalistic" religious tradition, in contrast to early Christianity, which seeks to obviate and so to supersede, annul, or abrogate Jewish law. Although scholars have known better since the surge of interest in the question of the law in post-Holocaust academic circles, the complex stances of both early Judaism and early Christianity toward questions of law observance have resisted easy resolution or sweeping generalizations. The essays in this volume aim to bring to the fore the legalistic and antinomian dimensions in both traditions, with a variety of contributions that examine the formative centuries of these two great religions and thier legal traditions. They explore how law and lawlessness are in tension throughout this early, formative period, and not finally resolved in one direction or the other.
Christian Law
Author: Norman Doe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107006929
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Comparing church laws within ten Christian traditions worldwide, Christianity emerges as a religion of law as well as of faith.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107006929
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Comparing church laws within ten Christian traditions worldwide, Christianity emerges as a religion of law as well as of faith.