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| The Impact of the Family on Character Formation Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies John Witte, Jr., Michael Welker, and Stephen Pickard (Leipzig, 2021) | Bioethics and the Holocaust: A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Continues to Shape the Ethics of A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Continues to Shape the Ethics of Health, Medicine and Human Rights Stacy Gallin and Ira Bedzow (Springer, 2022) |
| The family is humanity’s oldest and most basic social institution, but today it is fragile, fractured, and fraught in many liberal lands. This volume gathers scholars from sociology, psychology, history, religion, ethics, law, and medicine from five continents to analyze the complex nature and place of the family in character formation and human flourishing. The chapters study the impact of catechesis, schooling, work, and discipline on the development of individual moral agency and responsibility. They document the critical roles of family love, trust, fidelity, and story-telling in shaping the moral character of all family members from infancy to old age. They describe effective strategies of resistance and resilience for family members who face abuse, divorce, death, chauvinism, racism, and homophobia. And several chapters challenge modern arguments and policies that aim to flatten if not abolish the marital family, even while they call for family law reforms. | This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world |
First Name: John Last Name: Witte, Jr. | First Name: Stacy Last Name: Gallin |
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| Law and Christianity in Poland: The Legacy of the Great Jursits Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier and Rafael Domingo (Routledge, 2022) | The Impact of Education on Character Formation, Ethics, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies Stephen Pickard, Michael Welker, and John Witte, Jr. (Leipzig, 2022) |
| This volume is the first comprehensive study of the Polish history of law and Christianity written in English for a global audience. It examines the lives of twenty-one central figures in Polish law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their country and the region. The individuals selected for study exhibit wide-ranging areas of expertise, from private law and codification, through national public law and constitutional law, to international developments that left their mark on Poland and the world. The chapters discuss the jurists within their historical, intellectual, and political context. The editors selected jurists after extensive consultation with legal historians looking at the jurists’ particular merits, contributions to law in general, religious perspective, and period under consideration. | This book investigates the impact of education on the formation of character, moral education and the communication of values in late modern pluralistic societies. Scholars from four continents and many different academic fields are involved. While the basic framework for the contributions is informed by Christian traditions, the disciplines cover a significant range, including theology, education, psychology, literature, anthropology, law, and business, making for a rich variety of thematic concentrations and perspectives. Readers will quickly sense that the educational foundations and trajectories of any given country have a significant reach into the fabric and shape of the society and its values, making education a barometer of the well-being of a people and their culture. |
First Name: Franciszek Last Name: Longchamps de Bérier | First Name: Stephen Last Name: Pickard |
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| The Impact of the Military on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies Stephen Pickard, Michael Welker, and John Witte, Jr. (Leipzig, 2022) | International Humanitarian Law Johan D. van der Vyver (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2022) |
| In an often violent and dangerous world, military defense systems exercise a major role in the ways societies and nations function, develop their aspirations, protect themselves, promote their identities and shape their destinies. As we are only too aware at this time in global history, conflict, war and peace are deeply entangled and often morally ambiguous. This timely volume of essays offers contributions from Europe, Africa and Australia. It raises fundamental issues about the indispensability of the virtues in the military; the relationship between military and the public good; the nature of combatants and a soldier’s responsibilities for humanity and peace; moral and spiritual injury; and new challenges for pastoral care in the armed forces. | Since World War I, the international community of states has attempted to eliminate armed conflict as a means of settling international disputes. Centuries ago, Disedarius Erasmus (1466-1536) proclaimed: “War is pleasant only for those who have never had any experience of it.” Following World War II (1939-1945) the United Nations Organization was established with the primary purpose of maintaining international peace and security. However, armed conflicts and the violation of basic rules of International Humanitarian Law are in this day and age still with us. Today, even Super Powers engage illegally in armed interventions, as evidenced by the current invasion of Ukraine by Russian armed forces. |
First Name: Stephen Last Name: Pickard | First Name: Johan D. Last Name: van der Vyver |
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| The Impact of the Media on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies Michael Welker, Jürgen von Hagen, and John Witte, Jr. (Leipzig, 2022) | Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, Fifth Edition John Witte, Jr., Joel A. Nichols, and Richard W. Garnett (Oxford University Press, 2022) |
| Pluralism has become the defining characteristic of modern societies. Individuals with differing values clamor for equality. Organizations and groups assert particular interests. Social movements flourish and fade. Some see in this clash of principles and aims the potential for a more just human community, while others fear a cultural erosion. Yet beneath this welter stand powerful and pervasive institutions, whose distinctive norms profoundly shape our moral commitments and character. Specialists on media and communication, journalism, television, theologians, economists, sociologists, philosophers and ethicists discuss the many functions and challenges the media pose to the communication and orientation in late modern pluralistic societies. Contributions come from Germany, the UK, France, the USA, South Africa, and Australia. | This accessible and authoritative introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the Supreme Court cases of 2021. The authors analyze the formation of the First Amendment religion clauses and describe the unique and enduring principles of the American experiment in religious freedom. Successive chapters map all 240+ Supreme Court cases on religious freedom and the concluding reflections argue that protecting religious freedom is critical for democratic order and constitutional rule of law, even if it needs judicious balancing. This new 5th edition not only includes religious liberty scholar Richard W. Garnett as a coauthor, but also addresses new hot-button issues and cases such as those on religious freedom versus sexual liberty, religious worship in the time of COVID and freedom of conscience and exemption claims. |
First Name: Michael Last Name: Welker | First Name: John Last Name: Witte, Jr. |
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| Finding America in Exodus: A Blueprint for "A More Perfect Union" in the 21st Century Michael Broyde and Reuven Travis (Wipf and Stock, 2022) | The Impact of the Law: On Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies John Witte, Jr. and Michael Welker (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2021) |
| God's charge to the Jewish people at Sinai was to be "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." Nowhere is freedom found in this exhortation, even though the Jews had been freed from slavery only seven weeks prior. That is because the Jews were not liberated merely to become a free people. God wanted them and expected them to evolve into a nation committed to creating a law-abiding society. From this perspective, freedom is just a necessary precondition to achieving this. America's founders understood this, as the first of the national goals enumerated in the preamble to the US Constitution is "to form a more perfect Union," followed by "to establish Justice." Yet greatness does not equate to perfection, and America's history is marked by episodes, slavery foremost among them. Falling short of the mark, as the American and Jewish people have done more times than either would like to remember, does not negate their aspirational national goals. It just means that we must be prepared to honestly assess morally challenging situations when they arise and then recommit ourselves to our goals, be it becoming "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" or creating "a more perfect Union." | This volume addresses whether, how, and where laws (variously defined) teach values and shape moral character in late modern liberal societies. Each author recognizes the essential value of state law in fostering peace, security, health, education, charity, trade, democracy, constitutionalism, justice, and human rights, among many other moral goods. Each author also recognizes, however, the grave betrayals of law in supporting fascism, slavery, apartheid, genocide, persecution, violence, racism, and other forms of immorality and injustice. They thus call for state laws that set a basic civil morality of duty for society and for robust freedoms that protect private individuals and private groups to cultivate a higher morality of aspiration. With contributions by Rudiger Bittner, Brian Bix, Frank Brennan, Allen Calhoun, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., Kenneth John Crispin, Jean Bethke Elshtain, E. Allan Farnsworth, James E. Fleming, M. Cathleen Kaveny, Ute Mager, Linda C. McClain, Reid Mortensen, Patrick Parkinson, Thomas Pfeiffer, Robert Vosloo, Michael Welker, and John Witte, Jr. |
First Name: Michael Last Name: Broyde | First Name: John Last Name: Witte, Jr. |
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| Faith, Freedom, and Family John Witte, Jr. (Mohr Siebeck, 2021) | Law, Religion, and the Family in Africa M. Christian Green and Faith Kabata (African Sun Media, 2021) |
| Faith, freedom, and family together form the bedrock of a good life and a just society. But this foundation has suffered seismic shocks from vibrant religious pluralism, profound political changes, and new conceptions of marriage. This volume retrieves the major legal and theological teachings that have shaped these institutions and suggests ways to strengthen and integrate them anew. Part I highlights the work of several scholars of law and religion who have defined and defended the place of faith in law, politics, and society. Part II documents the development of freedom in the West and parries the attacks of skeptics of modern rights. Part III reaffirms the family as a cornerstone of faith and freedom historically and today, even while defending some modern marital reforms. Opening essays by the editors and closing interviews of the author place Witte's work in biographical and intellectual context and map some of the new frontiers and challenges of faith, freedom, and family around the globe. | The family is a crucial site for the interaction of law and religion the world over, including Africa. In many African societies, the family is governed by a range of sources of law, including civil, constitutional, customary and religious law. International law and human rights principles have been domesticated into African legal systems, particularly to protect the rights of women and children. Religious rites and rituals govern sexuality, marriage, divorce, child-rearing, inheritance, intergenerational relations and more in Christianity, Islam and indigenous African custom. This book examines the African family with attention to tradition and change, comparative law, the relation of parents and children to the state, indigenous religion and customary law, child marriage and child labour and migration, diaspora and displacement. |
First Name: John Last Name: Witte, Jr. | First Name: M. Christian Last Name: Green |
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| Australian Jurists and Christianity Geoff Lindsay and Wayne Hudson (The Federation Press, 2021) | Law and Christianity in Latin America: The Work of Great Jurists Matthew C. Mirow and Rafael Domingo (Routledge, 2021) |
| Australian Jurists and Christianity provides new perspectives on the relationship between law and religion in Australia. It claims that the relationship between law and religion was more significant in Australia than has been suggested. Specifically, it suggests that Christianity was a significant influence on Australian jurists, both as public figures and as makers of Australian law. The volume does this by means of case studies of some 24 leading Australian jurists: Lachlan Macquarie, James Stephen, Richard Bourke, John Hubert Plunkett, George Higinbotham, Samuel Griffith, Inglis Clark, Henry Bournes Higgins, Alfred Deakin, Edith Cowan, Lord Atkin, Robert Menzies, WJV Windeyer, Roma Mitchell, Gough Whitlam, Ron Wilson, Christopher Weeramantry, Gerard Brennan, William Deane, Robin Sharwood, Eddie Mabo, Murray Gleeson, Michael Kirby and John Hatzistergos. The case studies are introduced by a substantive guide to the nature of Australian legal practice which brings out distinctive features of the Australian experience. The volume also offers suggestions for how the role of religion in Australian legal history might be rethought in the future. This volume forms part of the international series Great Christian Jurists produced under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and includes a foreword by Australia’s renowned legal historian, Bruce Kercher. | The book is a significant contribution to our ability to understand the work and perspectives of jurists and their effect on legal development in Latin America. The individuals selected for study exhibit wide-ranging areas of expertise from private law and codification, through national public law and constitutional law, to international developments that left their mark on the region and the world. The chapters discuss the jurists within their historical, intellectual, and political context. The editors selected jurists after extensive consultation with legal historians in various countries of the region looking at the jurist’s particular merits, contributions to law in general, religious perspective, and importance within the specific country and period under consideration. Giving the work a diversity of international and methodological perspectives, the chapters have been written by distinguished legal scholars and historians from Latin America and around the world. |
First Name: Geoff Last Name: Lindsay | First Name: Matthew C. Last Name: Mirow |
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| The Impact of Academic Research: On Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies William Schweiker, Michael Welker, John Witte, Jr., and Stephen Pickard (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2021) | Christianity and International Law Pamela Slotte and John D. Haskell (Cambridge University Press, 2021) |
| This volume addresses whether, how, and where academic research has an impact on ethical education, character formation, and the communication of values in late modern pluralistic societies. It reflects the great impacts of a global network of research universities, with the enormous range from the natural sciences to mathematics, historical and theological investigations. It offers praises of the institutionalized impact of the search for truth and the defense of tested truth-claims, but also skeptical voices with respect to the ethical impact of academic research today. With contributions by Stefan Alkier (Frankfurt), Rudiger Bittner (Bielefeld), Celia Deane-Drummond (Oxford), Bernold Fiedler (Berlin), Andreas Glaeser (Chicago), Gary Hauk (Atlanta), Jorg Hufner (Heidelberg), Michael Kirschfink (Heidelberg), Andreas Schule (Leipzig), William Schweiker (Chicago), Michael Welker (Heidelberg), and John Witte, Jr. (Atlanta). | 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. |
First Name: William Last Name: Schweiker | First Name: Pamela Last Name: Slotte |
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| Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia Paul Valliere and Randall A. Poole (Routledge, 2021) | INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW - Volume II: Crimes within the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court Johan D. van der Vyver (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2021) |
| This book, authored by an international group of scholars, focuses on a vibrant central current within the history of Russian legal thought: how Christianity, and theistic belief generally, has inspired the aspiration to the rule of law in Russia, informed Russian philosophies of law, and shaped legal practices. Following a substantial introduction to the phenomenon of Russian legal consciousness, the volume presents twelve concise, non-technical portraits of modern Russian jurists and philosophers of law whose thought was shaped significantly by Orthodox Christian faith or theistic belief. Also included are chapters on the role the Orthodox Church has played in the legal culture of Russia and on the contribution of modern Russian scholars to the critical investigation of Orthodox canon law. | Crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court must be offenses under customary international law and include genocide, a rich variety of crimes against humanity, an equally rich variety of war crimes committed (a) in an international armed conflict and (b) in armed conflicts not of an international character, and the crime of genocide. The definition of genocide and the conditions under which the ICC can prosecute the crime of genocide was left unresolved by the Rome conference but was resolved at a review conference held in Kampala, Uganda in 2010.This book deals in detail with the definition of crimes and jurisprudence of the ICC in applying those definitions to situations in different countries of the world. The most recent judgments of the ICC are included, such as the Trial Judgment of 4 February 2021 in the case against Dominic Ongwen stemming from the situation in Uganda and the Sentencing Judgment in the Ongwen Case of 6 May 2021. |
First Name: Paul Last Name: Valliere | First Name: Johan D. Last Name: van der Vyver |
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| INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW - Volume I: History and Structures on the International Criminal Court Johan D. van der Vyver (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2021) | INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW - Volume III: Functioning of the International Criminal Court Johan D. van der Vyver (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2021) |
| Crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court must be offenses under customary international law and include genocide, a rich variety of crimes against humanity, an equally rich variety of war crimes committed (a) in an international armed conflict and (b) in armed conflicts not of an international character, and the crime of genocide. The definition of genocide and the conditions under which the ICC can prosecute the crime of genocide was left unresolved by the Rome conference but was resolved at a review conference held in Kampala, Uganda in 2010.This book deals in detail with the definition of crimes and jurisprudence of the ICC in applying those definitions to situations in different countries of the world. The most recent judgments of the ICC are included, such as the Trial Judgment of 4 February 2021 in the case against Dominic Ongwen stemming from the situation in Uganda and the Sentencing Judgment in the Ongwen Case of 6 May 2021. | Crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court must be offenses under customary international law and include genocide, a rich variety of crimes against humanity, an equally rich variety of war crimes committed (a) in an international armed conflict and (b) in armed conflicts not of an international character, and the crime of genocide. The definition of genocide and the conditions under which the ICC can prosecute the crime of genocide was left unresolved by the Rome conference but was resolved at a review conference held in Kampala, Uganda in 2010.This book deals in detail with the definition of crimes and jurisprudence of the ICC in applying those definitions to situations in different countries of the world. The most recent judgments of the ICC are included, such as the Trial Judgment of 4 February 2021 in the case against Dominic Ongwen stemming from the situation in Uganda and the Sentencing Judgment in the Ongwen Case of 6 May 2021. |
First Name: Johan D. Last Name: van der Vyver | First Name: Johan D. Last Name: van der Vyver |
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| The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition John Witte, Jr. (Cambridge University Press, 2021) | Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia: The Writings of Great Nordic Jurists Kjell A. Modéer and Helle Vogt (Routledge, 2020) |
| Leading legal scholar John Witte, Jr. explores the role religion played in the development of rights in the Western legal tradition and traces the complex interplay between human rights and religious freedom norms in modern domestic and international law. He examines how US courts are moving towards greater religious freedom, while recent decisions of the pan-European courts in Strasbourg and Luxembourg have harmed new religious minorities and threatened old religious traditions in Europe. Witte argues that the robust promotion and protection of religious freedom is the best way to protect many other fundamental rights today, even though religious freedom and other fundamental rights sometimes clash and need judicious balancing. He also responds to various modern critics who see human rights as a betrayal of Christianity and religious freedom as a betrayal of human rights. | 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. |
First Name: John Last Name: Witte, Jr. | First Name: Kjell A. Last Name: Modéer |
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| The Impact of the Market on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies Jürgen Von Hagen and Michael Welker (Leipzig, 2020) | The Impact of Religion on Character Formation, Ethical Education and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies Michael Welker, John Witte, Jr., and Stephen Pickard (Leipzig, 2020) |
| Pluralism has become the defining characteristic of modern societies. Individuals with differing values clamor for equality. Organizations and groups assert particular interests. Social movements flourish and fade. Some see in this clash of principles and aims the potential for a more just human community, while others fear the erosion of enduring culture. Yet beneath this welter stand powerful and pervasive institutions, whose distinctive norms profoundly shape our moral commitments and character—notably the family, the market, the media, and systems of law, religion, politics, research, education, health care, and defense. Drawing on scholarship from five continents, many disciplines, and diverse religious perspectives, this series examines the impact of these various institutions on moral education, character, and values. As globalization carries the shifting dynamic between individuals and institutions into every part of the globe, the contributors hope that this conversation ... | Pluralism has become the defining characteristic of modern societies. Individuals with differing values clamor for equality. Organizations and groups assert particular interests. Social movements flourish and fade. Some see in this clash of principles and aims the potential for a more just human community, while others fear the erosion of enduring culture. Yet beneath this welter stand powerful and pervasive institutions, whose distinctive norms profoundly shape our moral commitments and character—notably the family, the market, the media, and systems of law, religion, politics, research, education, health care, and defense. |
First Name: Jürgen Last Name: Von Hagen | First Name: Michael Last Name: Welker |
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| Law, Love and Freedom: From the Sacred to the Secular Joshua Neoh (Cambridge University Press, 2019) | Care for the World: Laudato Si' and Catholic Social Thought in an Era of Climate Crisis Frank Pasquale (Cambridge University Press, 2019) |
| How does one lead a life of law, love, and freedom? This inquiry has very deep roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Indeed, the divergent answers to this inquiry mark the transition from Judeo to Christian. This book returns to those roots to trace the twists and turns that these ideas have taken as they move from the sacred to the secular. It relates our most important mode of social organization, law, to two of our most cherished values, love and freedom. In this book, Joshua Neoh sketches the moral vision that underlies our modern legal order and traces our secular legal ideas (constitutionalism versus anarchism) to their theological origins (monasticism versus antinomianism). Law, Love, and Freedom brings together a diverse cast of characters, including Paul and Luther, Augustine and Aquinas, monks and Gnostics, and constitutionalists and anarchists. This book is valuable to any lawyers, philosophers, theologians and historians, who are interested in law as a humanistic discipline. | Convening leading scholars to reflect on the practical and philosophical implications of religious values, this volume is an accessible introduction to Catholic social thought on contemporary affairs. Its gracefully written chapters cover three themes - direct environmental policy implications of Laudato Si', philosophical alternatives to dominant policy discourse, and renewed political economy based on robust conceptions of human flourishing. Care for the World offers learned reflections on what it would mean to express an ethic of compassion in an era of climate crises. |
First Name: Joshua Last Name: Neoh | First Name: Frank Last Name: Pasquale |
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| Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium Philip L. Reynolds (Cambridge University Press, 2019) | The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths Karen Taliaferro (Cambridge University Press, 2019) |
| Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium is a systematic collection of essays describing how Christian leaders and scholars of the first millennium in the West contributed to law and jurisprudence and used written norms and corrective practices to maintain social order and to guide people from this life into the next. With chapters on topics such as Roman and post-Roman law, church councils, the papacy, and the relationship between royal and ecclesiastical authority, as well as on individual authors such as Lactantius, Ambrosiaster, Augustine, Leo I, Gelasius I, and Gregory the Great, this book invites a more holistic and realistic appreciation of early-medieval contributions to the history of law and jurisprudence for entry-level students and scholars alike. Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium provides a fresh look, from a new perspective, enabling readers to see these familiar authors in a fresh light. | Religious freedom is one of the most debated and controversial human rights in contemporary public discourse. At once a universally held human right and a flash point in the political sphere, religious freedom has resisted scholarly efforts to define its parameters. Taliaferro explores a different way of examining the tensions between the aims of religion and the needs of political communities, arguing that religious freedom is a uniquely difficult human right to uphold because it rests on two competing conceptions, human and divine. Drawing on classical natural law, Taliaferro expounds a new, practical theory of religious freedom for the modern world. By examining conceptions of law such as Sophocles' Antigone, Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, Ibn Rushd's Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and Tertullian's writings, The Possibility of Religious Freedom explains how expanding our notion of law to incorporate such theories can mediate conflicts of human and divine law and provide a solid foundation for religious liberty in modernity's pluralism. |
First Name: Philip L. Last Name: Reynolds | First Name: Karen Last Name: Taliaferro |
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| Libertad Religiosa en Estados Unidos: Historia de un experimento Constitucional John Witte, Jr., and Joel A. Nichols (Corporación de Estudios y Publicaciones, 2018) | Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought David M. Lantigua (Cambridge University Press, 2020) |
| La constitución de E.U.A. ha llegado a ser muy importante en el desarrollo de los derechos de las personas. Especialmente, en la primera de sus enmiendas —primera en muchos sentidos— que trata sobre la libertad religiosa, supuso un cambio de paradigmas. Mucha experiencia se puede sacar de este “experimento norteamericano”. | Before international relations in the West, there were Christian-infidel relations. Infidels and Empires in a New World Order decenters the dominant story of international relations beginning with Westphalia in 1648 by looking a century earlier to the Spanish imperial debate at Valladolid addressing the conversion of native peoples of the Americas. In addition to telling this crucial yet overlooked story from the colonial margins of Western Europe, this book examines the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic to consider how the ambivalent status of the infidel other under natural law and the law of nations culminating at Valladolid shaped subsequent international relations in explicit but mostly obscure ways. From Hernán Cortés to Samuel Purchas, and Bartolomé de las Casas to New England Puritans, a host of unconventional colonial figures enter into conversation with Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, and John Locke to reveal astonishing religious continuities and dissonances in early modern international legal thought with important implications for contemporary global society. |
First Name: John Last Name: Witte, Jr. | First Name: David M. Last Name: Lantigua |
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| The Immortal Commonwealth: Covenant, Community, and Political Resistance in Early Reformed Thought David P. Henreckson (Cambridge University Press, 2019) | The Profession of Ecclesiastical Lawyers: An Historical Introduction R.H. Helmholz (Cambridge University Press, 2019) |
| In the midst of intense religious conflict in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, theological and political concepts converged in remarkable ways. Incited by the slaughter of French Protestants in the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Reformed theologians and lawyers began to marshal arguments for political resistance. These theological arguments were grounded in uniquely religious conceptions of the covenant, community, and popular sovereignty. While other works of historical scholarship have focused on the political and legal sources of this strain of early modern resistance literature, The Immortal Commonwealth examines the frequently overlooked theological sources of these writings. It reveals how Reformed thinkers such as Heinrich Bullinger, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and Johannes Althusius used traditional theological conceptions of covenant and community for surprisingly radical political ends. | Historians of the English legal profession have written comparatively little about the lawyers who served in the courts of the Church. This volume fills a gap; it investigates the law by which they were governed and discusses their careers in legal practice. Using sources drawn from the Roman and canon laws and also from manuscripts found in local archives, R. H. Helmholz brings together previously published work and new evidence about the professional careers of these men. His book covers the careers of many lesser known ecclesiastical lawyers, dealing with their education in law, their reaction to the coming of the Reformation, and their relationship with English common lawyers on the eve of the Civil War. Making connections with the European ius commune, this volume will be of special interest to English and Continental legal historians, as well as to students of the relationship between law and religion. |
First Name: David P. Last Name: Henreckson | First Name: R. H. Last Name: Helmholz |
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| Christianity and the Laws of Conscience: An Introduction Jeffrey B. Hammond and Helen M. Alvare (Cambridge University Press, 2021) | Church Law in Modernity: Toward a Theory of Canon Law between Nature and Culture Judith Hahn (Cambridge University Press, 2019) |
| Conscience has long been a foundational theme in Christian ethics, but it is a notoriously slippery and contested term. This volume works to define conscience and reveal the similarities and differences between different Christian traditions' thinking on the subject. In a thorough and scholarly manner, the authors explore Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience. Covering a range of historical periods, major figures in the development of conscience, and contemporary applications, this book is a vital source for scholars from a wide variety of disciplines seeking to understand conscience from a range of perspectives. | Natural law has long been considered the traditional source of Roman Catholic canon law. However, new scholarship is critical of this approach as it portrays the Catholic Church as static, ahistorical, and insensitive to cultural change. In its attempt to stem the massive loss of effectiveness being experienced by canon law, the church has to reconsider its theory of legal foundation, especially its natural law theory. Church Law in Modernity analyses the criticism levelled at the church and puts forward solutions for reconciling church law with modernity by revealing the historical and cultural authenticity of all law, and revising the processes of law making. In a modern church, there is no way of thinking of the law without the participation of the faithful in legislation. Judith Hahn therefore proposes a reformed legislative process for the church in the hope of reconciling the natural law origins of church law with a new, modern theology. |
First Name: Jeffrey B. Last Name: Hammond | First Name: Judith Last Name: Hahn |
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| Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies Courtney Freer (Oxford University Press, 2018) | Common Law and Natural Law in America: From the Puritans to the Legal Realists Andrew Forsyth (Cambridge University Press, 2019) |
| While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so-called "rentier states" where taxes are very low and oil wealth subsidizes the needs of citizens, are largely unaffected by such movements. However, the long accepted rentier theory has been shortsighted in overlooking the socio-political role played by Muslim Brotherhood affiliates in the super-rentiers of Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. While rentier state theory assumes that citizens of such states will form opposition blocs only when their stake in rent income is threatened, this book demonstrates that ideology, rather than rent, have motivated the formation of independent Islamist movements in the wealthiest states of the region. In the monarchical systems of Qatar and the UAE, Islamist groups do not have the opportunity to compete for power and therefore cannot use the ballot box to gain popularity or influence political life, as they do elsewhere in the Middle East. But, as this book points out, the division between the social and political sectors is often blurred in the socially conservative states of the Gulf, as political actors operate through channels that are not institutionalized. Simply because politics is underinstitutionalized in such states does not mean that it is underdeveloped; the informal realm holds considerable political capital. As such, the book argues that Brotherhood movements have managed to use the links between the social (i.e. informal personal networks) and political (i.e. government institutions) to gain influence in policymaking in such states.Using contemporary history and original empirical research, Courtney Freer updates traditional rentier state theory and argues that political Islam serves as a prominent voice and tool to promote more strictly political, and often populist or reformist, views supported by many Gulf citizens. | Speaking to today's flourishing conversations on both law, morality, and religion, and the religious foundations of law, politics, and society, Common Law and Natural Law in America is an ambitious four-hundred-year narrative and fresh re-assessment of the varied American interactions of 'common law', the stuff of courtrooms, and 'natural law', a law built on human reason, nature, and the mind or will of God. It offers a counter-narrative to the dominant story of common law and natural law by drawing widely from theological and philosophical accounts of natural law, as well as primary and secondary work in legal and intellectual history. With consequences for today's natural-law proponents and critics alike, it explores the thought of the Puritans, Revolutionary Americans, and seminal legal figures including William Blackstone, Joseph Story, Christopher Columbus Langdell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the legal realists. |
First Name: Courtney Last Name: Freer | First Name: Andrew Last Name: Forsyth |
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| Roman Law: An Introduction Rafael Domingo (Routledge, 2018) | Church Laws and Ecumenism: A New Path for Christian Unity Norman Doe (Routledge, 2020) |
| Roman Law: An Introduction offers a clear and accessible introduction to Roman law for students of any legal tradition. In the thousand years between the Law of the Twelve Tables and Justinian’s massive Codification, the Romans developed the most sophisticated and comprehensive secular legal system of Antiquity, which remains at the heart of the civil law tradition of Europe, Latin America, and some countries of Asia and Africa. Roman lawyers created new legal concepts, ideas, rules, and mechanisms that most Western legal systems still apply. The study of Roman law thus facilitates understanding among people of different cultures by inspiring a kind of legal common sense and breadth of knowledge. | Written by experts from within their communities, this book compares the legal regimes of Christian churches as systems of religious law. The ecumenical movement, with its historical theological focus, has failed to date to address the role of church law in shaping relations between churches and fostering greater mutual understanding between them. In turn, theologians and jurists from the different traditions have not hitherto worked together on a fully ecumenical appreciation of the potential value of church laws to help, and sometimes to hinder, the achievement of greater Christian unity. This book seeks to correct this ecumenical church law deficit. It takes account of the recent formulation by an ecumenical panel of a Statement of Principles of Christian Law, which has been welcomed by Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Orthodox Church worldwide, as recognizing the importance of canon law for ecumenical dialogue. This book, therefore, not only provides the fruits of an understanding of church laws within ten Christian traditions, but also critically evaluates the Statement against the laws of these individual ecclesial communities. The book will be an essential resource for scholars of law and religion, theology, and sociology. It will also be of interest to those working in religious institutions and policy-makers. |
First Name: Rafael Last Name: Domingo | First Name: Norman Last Name: Doe |
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| Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries Wim Decock and Janwillem Oosterhuis (Cambridge University Press, 2021) | Christianity and Market Regulation Daniel A. Crane and Samuel Gregg (Cambridge University Press, 2021) |
| What impact has Christianity had on law and policies in the Lowlands from the eleventh century through the end of the twentieth century? Taking the gradual 'secularization' of European legal culture as a framework, this volume explores the lives and times of twenty legal scholars and professionals to study the historical impact of the Christian faith on legal and political life in the Low Countries. The process whereby Christian belief systems gradually lost their impact on the regulation of secular affairs passed through several stages, not in the least the Protestant Reformation, which led to the separation of the Low Countries in a Protestant North and a Catholic South in the first place. The contributions take up general issues such as the relationship between justice and mercy, Christianity and politics as well as more technical topics of state-church law, criminal law and social policy. | Historically, the Christian tradition has played an influential role in Western economic thought concerning the regulation of markets, but, with the fracturing of the Christian tradition following the Reformation, the decline of Christian influence in academia, and the increasing specialization of economic analysis, that influence has become increasingly opaque. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of prominent academic experts on market regulation from four different continents and various faith traditions to reconsider the impact of Christianity on market regulation. Drawing on law, economics, history, theology, philosophy, and political theory, the authors consider both general questions of market regulation and particular regulatory fields such as bankruptcy, corporate law, and antitrust from a Christian perspective. |
First Name: Wim Last Name: Decock | First Name: Daniel A. Last Name: Crane |
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| Christianity and Private Law Robert F. Cochran, Jr. and Michael P. Moreland (Routledge, 2020) | Tax Law, Religion, and Justice: An Exploration of Theological Reflections on Taxation Allen Calhoun (Routledge, 2021) |
| 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. | This book asks why tax policy is both attracted to and repelled by the idea of justice. Accepting the invitation of economist Henry Simons to acknowledge that tax justice is a theological concept, the work explores theological doctrines of taxation to answer the presenting question. The overall message of the book is that taxation is an instrument of justice, but only when taxes take into account multiple goods in society: the requirements of the government, the property rights of society’s members, and the material needs of the poor. It is argued that this answer to the presenting question is a theological and ethical answer in that it derives from the insistence of Christian thinkers that tax policy take into account material human need (necessitas). Without the necessitas component of the tax balance, tax systems end up honoring only one of the three components of the tax equation and cease to reflect a coherent idea of justice. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of tax law, economics, theology, and history. |
First Name: Robert F. Last Name: Cochran, Jr. | First Name: Allen Last Name: Calhoun |
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| Catholic Social Teaching: A Volume of Scholarly Essays Gerard V. Bradley and E. Christian Brugger (Cambridge University Press, 2019) | The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech: From Blackstone to the First Amendment Wendell Bird (Oxford University Press, 2020) |
| Catholic social teaching (CST) refers to the corpus of authoritative ecclesiastical teaching, usually in the form of papal encyclicals, on social matters, beginning with Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum (1891) and running through Pope Francis. CST is not a social science and its texts are not pragmatic primers for social activists. It is a normative exercise of Church teaching, a kind of comprehensive applied - although far from systematic - social moral theology. This volume is a scholarly engagement with this 130-year-old documentary tradition. Its twenty-three essays aim to provide a constructive, historically sophisticated, critical exegesis of all the major (and some of the minor) documents of CST. The volume's appeal is not limited to Catholics, or even just to those who embrace, or who are seriously interested in, Christianity. Its appeal is to any scholar interested in the history or content of modern CST. | Proposes a radical reinterpretation of the history of freedoms of press and speech in England and in America. Provides a thoroughly documented history of the press and speech provisions of the First Amendment. Proffers a description of the major cases through the 17th and 18th centuries in the history of freedoms of press and speech. |
First Name: Gerard V. Last Name: Bradley | First Name: Wendell Last Name: Bird |
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| Criminal Dissent: The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 Wendell Bird (Harvard University Press, 2020) | Giving Voice to Values as a Professional Physician: An Introduction to Medical Ethics Ira Bedzow (Routledge, 2019) |
| In the first complete account of prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts, dozens of previously unknown cases come to light, revealing the lengths to which the John Adams administration went in order to criminalize dissent. The Alien and Sedition Acts launched a foundational debate on press freedom, freedom of speech, and the legitimacy of opposition politics. The result was widespread revulsion over the government’s attempt to deprive Americans of their hard-won liberties. Criminal Dissent is a potent reminder of just how fundamental those rights are to a stable democracy. | Giving Voice to Values as a Professional Physician provides students with the theoretical background and practical applications for acting on their values in situations of ethical conflict. It is the first medical ethics book that utilizes the Giving Voice to Values methodology to instruct students in medical ethics and professionalism. In doing so, it shifts the focus of ethics education from intellectually examining ethical theories and conflicts to emphasizing moral action. Each section of the book explains how moral decision-making and action can be implemented in the healthcare arena. Medical ethics cases are provided throughout in order to assist students in giving voice to their values and developing skills for professional action. The book provides a unique guide for professional identity formation and the teaching of ethics in medical schools. |
First Name: Wendell Last Name: Bird | First Name: Ira Last Name: Bedzow |
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| Decolonizing Human Rights Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (Cambridge University Press, 2021) | Maimonides for Moderns: A Statement of Contemporary Jewish Philosophy Ira Bedzow (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) |
| In his extensive body of work, Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim challenges both historical interpretations of Islamic Sharia and neo-colonial understanding of human rights. To advance the rationale of scholarship for social change, An-Naim proposes advancing the universality of human rights through internal discourse within Islamic and African societies and cross-cultural dialogue among human cultures. This book proposes a transformation from human rights organized around a state determined practice to one that is focused on a people-centric approach that empowers individuals to decide how human rights will be understood and integrated into their communities. Decolonizing Human Rights aims to illustrate the decisive role of human agency on the subject of change, without implying that Islamic or any other society are exceptionally disposed to politically motivated violence and consequent profound political instability. | This book aims to construct a contemporary Jewish philosophy that accounts for virtue ethics or, rather, to give Jewish virtue ethics a contemporary language for its expression. Ira Bedzow draws significantly on the work of Moses Maimonides and his religio-philosophical explanation of Jewish ethics. However, Bedzow moves away from various aspects of Maimonides’s Aristotelian biology, physics, metaphysics, and psychology. The objective of the volume is to integrate the normative principles of the Jewish tradition into everyday life. While the book translates Jewish ethics from a medieval, Aristotelian framework into a contemporary one, it also serves as a means for Judaism to continue as a living tradition. |
First Name: Abdullahi Last Name: Ahmed An-Na'im | First Name: Bedzow Last Name: Ira |
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| Christianity and the Law of Migration Silas W. Allard, Kristin E. Heyer, and Raj Nadella (Routledge, 2021) | Setting the Table An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’s Arukh haShulhan Michael J. Broyde and Shlomo Pill (Academic Studies Press, 2020) |
| Gathering 14 leading scholars from both law and Christian theology, the book covers legal perspectives, theological perspectives, and key concepts in migration studies. In Part 1, scholars of migration law and policy discuss the legal landscape of migration at both the domestic and international level. In Part 2, Christian theologians, ethicists, and biblical scholars draw on the resources of the Christian tradition to think about migration. In Part 3, each chapter is co-authored by a scholar of law and a scholar of Christian theology, who bring their respective resources and perspectives into conversation on key themes within migration studies. | This book explains the major jurisprudential factors driving the halakhic jurisprudence of Rabbi Yehiel Mikhel Epstein, twentieth-century author of the Arukh Hashulchan—the most comprehensive, seminal, and original modern restatement of Jewish law since Maimonides. Reasoning inductively from a broad review of hundreds of rulings from the Orach Chaim section of the Arukh Hashulchan, the book teases out and explicates ten core halakhic principles that animate Rabbi Epstein’s halakhic decision-making. Along the way, it compares the Arukh Hashulchan methodology to that of the Mishna Berura. This book will help any reader understand important methodological issues in both Jewish and general jurisprudence. |
First Name: Silas W. Last Name: Allard | First Name: Michael J. Last Name: Broyde |
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| Law, Religion and the Environment in Africa M. Christian Green and Muhammad Haron, eds. (African Sun Media, 2020) | Sex in the Garden: Consensual Encounters Gone Bad Michael J. Broyde, Reuven Travis (Wipf and Stock, 2019) |
| This volume explores themes of ecotheology, ecofeminism, environmental pollution and degradation, climate change, human and environmental rights, sustainable development, human-animal relations through totem and taboo, sacred sites and spaces, and other environmental topics in ways that add immeasurably to the study of African environmentalisms and the interaction of law and religion. In terms of religion, the capability of humans not only to sin and destroy the earth, but also to repair and redeem it, is very much in evidence across Christianity, Islam and Africa’s many indigenous religious and cultural traditions. In terms of law, the need for effective policies and for states and governments to work with indigenous groups and communities towards environmental solutions is also apparent. | In the #MeToo times in which we live, there are few hard and fast rules that govern personal encounters and sexual liaisons. Consent, so long as it is neither coerced nor forced, dictates all. Astute students of the Bible will see this aspect of our current social milieu reflected in the book of Genesis. Genesis is not a book about laws. There are no “thou shall” or “thou shall not” commandments given over by God to humanity. Instead, its narrative depicts the cultures of its time as operating on personal choices and personal freedoms. |
First Name: M. Christian Last Name: Green | First Name: Michael J. Last Name: Broyde |
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| Great Christian Jurists in German History Mathias Schmoeckel, John Witte Jr. (Mohr Siebeck, 2020) | Great Christian Jurists in American History David L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall (Cambridge University Press, 2019) |
| This volume is part of a 50-volume series on “Great Christian Jurists,” presenting the interaction of law and Christianity through the biographies of 1000 legal figures of the past two millennia from Albert the Great and Eike von Repgow in the Middle Ages to Konrad Adenauer and Stephan Kuttner in the twentieth century. Each chapter analyzes the influence of Christianity on their lives and legal work and sketches their enduring influence on the laws of church and state. Featuring freshly written chapters, this is the first overview in English of the relationship of Christianity and German law in the second millennium. Authoritative, accessible, and engaging, this study is a vital scholarly resource and classroom text. | This volume explores the intersection of law and Christianity, examining the impact of Christianity on North American life from the colonial era until today. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a specific Christian jurist from the centuries spanning America’s history; highlighting jurists from the time of English settlements in the early seventeenth century, to the American life and law of the twenty-first century. |
First Name: Mathias Last Name: Schmoeckel | First Name: Daniel L. Last Name: Dreisbach |
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| Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy The Legacy of the Great Jurists Orazio Condorelli, Rafael Domingo (Routledge, 2020) | Christianity and Criminal Law Mark Hill QC, Norman Doe, RH Helmholz, and John Witte, Jr (Routledge, 2020) |
| This volume is part of a 50-volume series on “Great Christian Jurists,” presenting the interaction of law and Christianity through the biographies of 1000 legal figures of the past two millennia. Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy: The Legacy of Christian Jurists presents 26 chapters and biographical case studies on major Italian scholars from Irnerius and Gratian in the early twelfth century to Pope Paul VI of the Second Vatical Council. Included are studies of famous civilians, notable jurists, and other lesser-known scholars worthy of global attention. This book is essential reading for all interested in the historical intersections of law and religion and their contemporary consequences. | This collection presents historical, theological, philosophical and legal perspectives on Christianity and criminal law. The book is divided into four thematic sections. Part I addresses the historical contributions of Christianity to criminal law drawing on biblical sources, early church fathers and canonists, as far as the Enlightenment. Part II, titled Christianity and the principles of criminal law, compares crime and sin, examines concepts of mens rea and intention, and considers the virtue of due process within criminal justice. Part III looks at Christianity and criminal offences, considering their Christian origins and continuing relevance for several basic crimes that every legal system prohibits. Finally, in Part IV, the authors consider Christianity and the enforcement of criminal law, looking at defences, punishment and forgiveness. |
First Name: Orazio Last Name: Condorelli | First Name: Mark Last Name: Hill QC |
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| Great Christian Jurists in French History Olivier Descamps and Rafael Domingo (Cambridge University Press, 2019) | Christianity and Global Law Rafael Domingo and John Witte, Jr. (Routledge, 2020) |
| French legal culture, from the Middle Ages to the present day, has had an impressive influence on legal norms and institutions that have emerged in Europe and the Americas, as well as in Asian and African countries. This volume examines the lives of twenty-seven key legal thinkers in French history, with a focus on how their Christian faith and ideals were a factor in framing the evolution of French jurisprudence. Professors Olivier Descamps and Rafael Domingo bring together this diverse group of distinguished legal scholars and historians to provide a unique comparative study of law and religion that will be of value to scholars, lawyers, and students. The collaboration among French and non-French scholars, and the diversity of international and methodological perspectives, gives this volume its own unique character and value to add to this fascinating series. | This book explores both historical and contemporary Christian sources and dimensions of global law and includes critical perspectives from various religious and philosophical traditions. Two dozen leading scholars discuss the constituent principles of this new global legal order historically, comparatively, and currently. Together, they insist that Christianity, as one of the world’s great religions, has deep norms and practices, ideas and institutions, prophets and procedures that can be of benefit as the world struggles to find global legal resources to confront humanity’s greatest challenges. |
First Name: Olivier Last Name: Descamps | First Name: Rafael Last Name: Domingo |
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| Islam and Human Rights: Selected Essays of Abdullahi An-Na'im Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (Ashgate, 2010) | Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (Harvard University Press, 2008) |
| The relationship between Islam and human rights forms an important aspect of contemporary international human rights debates. Current international events have made the topic more relevant than ever in international law discourse. | What should be the place of shari'a-Islamic religious law in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for shari'a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies. |
First Name: Abdullahi Last Name: Ahmed An-Na'im | First Name: Abdullahi Last Name: Ahmed An-Na'im |
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| Muslims and Global Justice Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) | What Is an American Muslim? Embracing Faith and Citizenship Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (Oxford University Press, 2014) |
| In Muslims and Global Justice, he advances the theme of global justice from an Islamic perspective, critically examining the role that Muslims must play in the development of a pragmatic, rights-based framework for justice. | Since 2001, there has been a tremendous backlash against the very idea that it is possible to be both American and Muslim-the controversy over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" and the attempts to ban shari'a law are examples. Is it possible to be both fully American and devoutly Muslim? |
First Name: Abdullahi Ahmed Last Name: An-Na'im | First Name: Abdullahi Ahmed Last Name: An-Na'im |
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| Inter-Religious Marriages among Muslims: Negotiating Religious and Social Identity in Family and Community Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (Global Media Publications, 2005) | The Morality of Happiness Julia Annas (Oxford University Press, 2009) |
| Discourse on interfaith marriages in India at present involves diverse narratives ranging from opposition and resistance to acceptance. These alliances deserve greater focus in terms of their uniqueness, challenges as well as everyday negotiations that form part of their lives. | Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories. But we cannot find out whether this is true until we understand ancient ethics--and to do this we need to examine the basic structure of ancient ethical theory, not just the details of one or two theories. |
First Name: Abdullahi Ahmed Last Name: An-Na'im | First Name: Annas Last Name: Julia |
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| The Collected Writings of Harold J. Berman: Essays, Articles, and Unpublished Manuscripts (1938-2008) Harold J. Berman (Emory University School of Law, 2009) | Law and Language: Effective Symbols of Community Harold J. Berman (Cambridge University Press, 2013) |
| Completed in 1964, Harold J. Berman's long-lost tract shows how properly negotiated, translated and formalised legal language is essential to fostering peace and understanding within local and international communities. Exemplifying interdisciplinary and comparative legal scholarship long before they were fashionable, it is a fascinating prequel to Berman's monumental Law and Revolution series. | |
First Name: Harold Last Name: Berman | First Name: Harold Last Name: Berman |
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| The Nature and Functions of Law, 7th ed. Harold J. Berman (Foundation Press/Thomson, 2009) | The Distinctiveness of Religion in American Law: Rethinking Religion Clause Jurisprudence Kathleen A. Brady (Cambridge University Press, 2015) |
| This book focuses on the special character of law in performing certain social functions. Presented are the salient aspects of criminal and civil procedure, alternative dispute resolution, aspects of judicial reasoning on the basis of precedents, especially in cases of manufacturer's liability in tort, certain aspects of the law of contracts, and aspects of international human rights law, including race law, and gender law, both at the national and international level-not in order to present a composite picture of the whole legal system but in order to test the success of the legal system in carrying out its basic purposes. | In recent decades, religion's traditional distinctiveness under the First Amendment has been challenged by courts and scholars. As America grows more secular and as religious and nonreligious convictions are increasingly seen as interchangeable, many have questioned whether special treatment is still fair. In its recent decisions, the Supreme Court has made clear that religion will continue to be treated differently, but we lack a persuasive account of religion's uniqueness that can justify this difference. |
First Name: Harold Last Name: Berman | First Name: Kathleen Last Name: Brady |
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| The Vocation of the Child Patrick M. Brennan (William B. Eerdmans, 2008) | Equality and the Family: A Fundamental Practical Theology of Children, Mothers, and Fathers in Modern Societies. Don S. Browning (William B. Eerdmans, 2007) |
| Rather than discussing their possible vocation, discussions of children tend to center on their rights or duties. Does God have intentions for their young lives -- before they grow up and become real people, Distinguished jurist, Patrick McKinley Brennan has gathered sixteen authors to approach this idea in various ways, from historical to psychological to theological. | Interest in psychology permeates our culture, with psychological solutions advanced for a host of moral dilemmas. How should ethically minded Christians include insights from such disciplines as psychoanalysis, cognitive moral development, and neuroscience in their theological reflection? Don Browning offers a serious proposal for combining these disciplines with the best in ethical reflection from a Christian standpoint. |
First Name: Patrick Last Name: Brennan | First Name: Don Last Name: Browning |
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| Children and Childhood in World Religions Don S. Browning and Marcia J. Bunge, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2011) | American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy Don S. Browning and David A. Clairmont, eds. (Columbia University Press, 2007) |
| While children figure prominently in religious traditions, few books have directly explored the complex relationships between children and religion. This is the first book to examine the theme of children in major religions of the world. | Religions respond to capitalism, democracy, industrialization, feminism, individualism, and the phenomenon of globalization in a variety of ways. Some religions conform to these challenges, if not capitulate to them; some critique or resist them, and some work to transform the modern societies they inhabit. |
First Name: Don Last Name: Browning | First Name: Don Last Name: Browning |
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| Sex, Marriage, and Family in the World Religions Don S. Browning, Christian M. Green, and John Witte, Jr., eds (Columbia University Press, 2006) | Children and Childhood in American Religions Don S. Browning and Bonnie Miller-McLemore, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2009) |
| Spanning thousands of years, this new collection brings together writings and teachings about sex, marriage, and family from the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Confucian traditions. The volume includes traditional texts as well as contemporary materials showing how the religions have responded to the changing conditions and mores of modern life. | Whether First Communion or bar mitzvah, religious traditions play a central role in the lives of many American children. In this collection of essays, leading scholars reveal for the first time how various religions interpret, reconstruct, and mediate their traditions to help guide children and their parents in navigating the opportunities and challenges of American life. |
First Name: Don Last Name: Browning | First Name: Don Last Name: Browning |
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| A Concise Code of Jewish Law for Converts Michael J. Broyde (Urim Publications, 2017) | Innovation in Jewish Law: A Case Study of Chiddush in Havineinu Michael J. Broyde (Urim Publications, 2010) |
| While the topic of conversion in Judaism has been extensively covered, no one has explored the particular laws related to after conversion. In A Concise Code of Jewish Law for Converts, Michael J. Broyde explores many topics and questions that revolve around the life of a Jewish convert. | This study addressed the legal analysis used to explain that change. Though the shift in perspective has been gradual, the book argues that the resulting profound change in the interpretation of halachic texts has had a direct influence on the understanding and the practice of Jewish law. |
First Name: Michael Last Name: Broyde | First Name: Michael Last Name: Broyde |
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| Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West Michael J. Broyde (Oxford University Press, 2017) | The Bounds of Wartime Military Conduct in Jewish Law: An Expansive Conception Michael J. Broyde (Center for Jewish Studies, Queens College, CUNY, 2006) |
| This book explores the rise of private arbitration in religious and other values-oriented communities, and it argues that secular societies should use secular legal frameworks to facilitate, enforce, and also regulate religious arbitration. It covers the history of religious arbitration; the kinds of faith-based dispute resolution models currently in use; how the law should perceive them; and what the role of religious arbitration in the United States and the western world should be. | |
First Name: Michael Last Name: Broyde | First Name: Michael Last Name: Broyde |
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| The Pursuit of Justice and Jewish Law: Halakhic Perspectives on the Legal Profession. 2nd ed Michael J. Broyde (Yashar Books, 2007) | Contending with Catastrophe: Jewish Perspectives on September 11th Michael J. Broyde (K'hal Pub. in cooperation with Beth Din of America, 2011) |
| A Jewish lawyer is bound to --sometimes torn between -- two disparate systems of law and ethics. What do you do when your religion conflicts with your obligations as a lawyer? For that matter, how do you know what your religious obligations are? Michael J. Broyde, Professor of Law at Emory University, founding rabbi of the Young Israel in Atlanta and a member dayan of the Beth Din of America, takes a fearless inside look at the ethical and halakhic issues facing the Jewish lawyer and anyone caught up in the American legal system | The tragic events of September 11th, 2001 shook the world, permanently changing the lives of millions of people. Jews are sadly familiar with vicious terrorist attacks yet we continue to be moved by the horror of modern warfare. Over the past decade, in the wake of 9/11, the Jewish community has looked to its tradition for guidance on how to react to these horrific attacks, both intellectually and in practice. |
First Name: Michael Last Name: Broyde | First Name: Michael Last Name: Broyde |
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| Marriage, Sex, and Family in Judaism Michael J. Broyde and Michael Ausubel, eds. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011) | The Codification of Jewish Law: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura Michael J. Broyde and Ira Bedzow, eds. (Academic Studies Press, 2014) |
| Marriage, Sex and Family in Judaism explores Jewish marriage from historical and contemporary perspectives, focusing on the religious and legal concepts of marriage, and the social impact of family in the Jewish community. The book does not advocate one perspective or another; instead, the essays range from conservative to liberal viewpoints, offering readers a well-balanced mixture of perspectives on Jewish marriage. | The Mishna Berura is, without a doubt, Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan's greatest and most complex contribution to the canon of Orthodox Jewish Law; it is a singular work that synthesizes Jewish traditions, laws, and mores into a practical halakhic guide to daily religious life. For all of his traditionalism, Rabbi Kagan was an iconoclast, and the Mishna Berura broke from many of the traditional approaches of deciding halakhic directives. |
First Name: Michael Last Name: Broyde | First Name: Michael Last Name: Broyde |
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| Pope Benedict XVI's Legal Thought: A Dialogue on the Foundation of Law Marta Cartabia and Andrea Simoncini, eds (Cambridge University Press, 2014) | God and the Art of Happiness Ellen Charry (William B. Eerdmans, 2010) |
| This book discusses the speeches in which the Pope Emeritus reflected most explicitly on this issue, along with the commentary from a number of distinguished legal scholars. It responds to Benedict's invitation to engage in public discussion on the limits of positivist reason in the domain of law from his address to the Bundestag. | Ellen Charry here reveals how the Bible encourages the happiness and joy that accompany obedience to the Creator, enhancing both our own life and the lives of those around us. This advances the well being of creation, which, in turn, causes God to delight with, in, and for us. |
First Name: Marta Last Name: Cartabia | First Name: Ellen Last Name: Charry |
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| Agape, Justice, and Law: How Might Christian Love Shape Law? Robert F. Cochran, Jr. and Zachary Calo, eds (Cambridge University Press, 2017) | Christianity and Natural Law: An Introduction Norman Doe (Cambridge University Press, 2017) |
| In a provocative essay, philosopher Jeffrie 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. | Historically, natural law has played a pivotal role in Christian approaches to the law, and a contested role in legal philosophy generally. However, comparative study of natural law across global Christian traditions is largely neglected. This book provides not only the history of natural law ideas across mainstream Christian traditions worldwide, but also an ecumenical comparison of the contemporary natural law positions of different traditions. |
First Name: Robert Last Name: Cochran, Jr. | First Name: Norman Last Name: Doe |
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| The New Global Law Rafael Domingo (Cambridge University Press, 2010) | Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History Rafael Domingo and Javier Martínez-Torrón, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2018) |
| The dislocations of the worldwide economic crisis, the necessity of a system of global justice to address crimes against humanity, and the notorious "democratic deficit" of international institutions highlight the need for an innovative and truly global legal system, one that permits humanity to reorder itself according to acknowledged global needs and evolving consciousness. | The Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the professional output of the individuals studied. Spanish legal culture, developed during the Spanish Golden Age, has had a significant influence on the legal norms and institutions that emerged in Europe and in Latin America. This volume examines the lives of twenty key personalities in Spanish legal history, in particular how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law. |
First Name: Rafael Last Name: Domingo | First Name: Rafael Last Name: Domingo |
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| Legalizing Plural Marriage: The Next Frontier in Family Law Mark A. Goldfeder (Brandeis University Press, 2017) | Religious Organizations and the Law Mark A. Goldfeder, William W. Bassett, W. Cole Durham, Jr., and Robert T. Smith, eds. (Thompson Reuters/West, 2015) |
| Polygamous marriages are currently recognized in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Although polygamy is technically illegal in the United States, it is practiced by members of some religious communities and a growing number of other 'poly' groups. In the radically changing and increasingly multicultural world in which we live, the time has come to define polygamous marriage and address its legal feasibilities. | Religious Organizations and the Law is a complete analytical guide to the constitutional law, federal and state decisions, statutes, ordinances, and regulations affecting the operation of religious entities. |
First Name: Mark Last Name: Goldfeder | First Name: Mark Last Name: Goldfeder |
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| Looking Forward: Essays on Social Action Mark Goldfeder and Ira Bedzow, eds. (ACSV Publications, 2014) | Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics Stephen J. Grabill (William .B. Eerdmans, 2006) |
| Is knowledge of right and wrong written on the human heart? Do people know God from the world around them? Does natural knowledge contribute to Christian doctrine? | |
First Name: Mark Last Name: Goldfeder | First Name: Stephen Last Name: Grabil |
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| No Establishment of Religion: America's Original Contribution to Religious Liberty Jeremy T. Gunn and John Witte, Jr. eds. (Oxford University Press, 2012) | Lex Charitatis: A Juristic Disquisition on Law in the Theology of Martin Luther Johannes Heckel (William B. Eerdmans, 2010) |
| The First Amendment guarantee that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" rejected the millennium-old Western policy of supporting one form of Christianity in each nation and subjugating all other faiths. | This substantial work by one of Europe's most respected twentieth-century legal minds unpacks Luther's doctrine of law, showing how it derived from his central theological concern, justification by faith. |
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| God and the Illegal Alien United States Immigration Law and a Theology of Politics Robert W. Heimburger (Cambridge University Press, 2017) | Great Christian Jurists in English History Mark Hill and R.H. Helmholz, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2017) |
| Today in the United States, millions of men, women, and children are considered 'illegal aliens' under federal law. While the presence of these migrants runs against the law, many arrive in response to US demand for cheap labor and stay to contribute to community life. | The Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the professional output of the individuals studied. |
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| Political Agape: Christian Love and Liberal Democracy Timothy P. Jackson (William B. Eerdmans, 2015) | The Priority of Love: Christian Charity and Social Justice Timothy P. Jackson (Princeton University Press, 2009) |
| What is the place of Christian love in a pluralistic society dedicated to 'liberty and justice for all'? What would it mean to take both Jesus Christ and Abraham Lincoln seriously and attempt to translate love of God and neighbor into every quarter of life, including law and politics? | This book explores the relation between agape (or Christian charity) and social justice. Timothy Jackson defines agape as the central virtue in Christian ethical thought and action and applies his insights to three concrete issues: political violence, forgiveness, and abortion. |
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| The Best Love of the Child: Being Loved and Being Taught to Love as the First Human Right Timothy P. Jackson (William B. Eerdmans, 2011) | The Morality of Adoption: Social-Psychological, Theological, and Legal Perspective Timothy P. Jackson (William B. Eerdmans, 2013) |
| Much has been written about the rights owed to children: the right to live, the right to be nurtured and cared for, the right to an ample measure of health and happiness - and, especially, the right to be loved. | The Religion, Marriage, and Family Series investigates marriage and family as major theological and cultural issues. Given that both society and the church have debated these topics intensely but have actually studied them very little, this series attempts to correct recent theological neglect of these important matters. |
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| Blessings Same-Sex Unions: The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage Mark D. Jordon (University of Chicago Press, 2013) | Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality Mark D. Jordon (University of Chicago Press, 2011) |
| At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, the florist, and the caterer. And in this day and age, more wedding theology is supplied by Modern Bride magazine or reality television than by any of the Christian treatises on holy matrimony. | In the view of many Christians, the teenage years are simultaneously the most dangerous and the most promising. At the very moment when teens are trying to establish a sense of identity and belonging, they are beset by temptation on all sides-from the pressure of their peers to the nihilism and materialism of popular culture. |
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| Authorizing Marriage? Canon, Tradition, and Critique in the Blessings of Same-Sex Unions Mark D. Jordon (Princeton University Press, 2006) | Religious Liberty, Volume 1: Overviews and History Douglas Laycock (William B. Eerdmans, 2010) |
| The opponents of legal recognition for same-sex marriage frequently appeal to a "Judeo-Christian" tradition. But does it make any sense to speak of that tradition as a single teaching on marriage? Are there elements in Jewish and Christian traditions that actually authorize religious and civil recognition of same-sex couples? | One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious liberty cases in the U.S. appellate courts and Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in four comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty. |
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| Religious Liberty, Volume 2: The Free Exercise Clause Douglas Laycock (William B. Eerdmans, 2011) | Religious Liberty, Volume 3: Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, Same-Sex Marriage Legislation, and the Culture Wars Douglas Laycock (William B. Eerdmans, 2018) |
| For more than thirty years, Douglas Laycock has been studying, defending, and writing about religious liberty. In this second volume of the comprehensive collection of his writings on the subject, he has compiled articles, amicus briefs, and actual court documents relating to regulatory exemptions under the Constitution, the right to church autonomy, and the rights of non-mainstream religions. | One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious-liberty cases in the United States Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in five comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty. |
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| Religious Liberty, Volume 4 Federal Legislation after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, with More on the Culture Wars Douglas Laycock (William B. Eerdmans, 2018) | Religious Liberty, Volume 5: The Free Speech and Establishment Clauses Douglas Laycock (William B. Eerdmans, 2018) |
| One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious-liberty cases in the United States Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in five comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty. | One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious-liberty cases in the United States Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in five comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty. |
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| The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty: Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology Bradford B. LittleJohn (William B. Eerdmans, 2017) | Secular Government, Religious People Ira C. Lupa (William B. Eerdmans, 2014) |
| How do Christians determine when to obey God even if that means disobeying other people? In this book W. Bradford Littlejohn addresses that question as he unpacks the magisterial political-theological work of Richard Hooker, a leading figure in the sixteenth-century English Reformation. | In this book Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle break through the unproductive American debate over competing religious rights. They present an original theory that makes the secular character of the American government, rather than a set of individual rights, the centerpiece of religious liberty in the United States. |
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| Building Cultures of Trust Marty E. Martin (William B. Eerdmans, 2010) | The Ascent of Christian Law: Patristic and Byzantine Formulations of a New Civilization John McGuckin (SVS Press, 2012) |
| American society is experiencing a profound crisis of trust, from government to mass media to educational and religious institutions. And - whether we realize it or not - this crisis affects us all. | This work asks the question: What did Christianity do to build a civilization? In the present age, law has been used energetically to micro-manage human societies, values, and aspirations. But did l aw work that way in antiquity? |
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| Suing for America's Soul Jonathan R. Moore (Cambridge University Press, 2007) | The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy Aristotle Papanikolau (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012) |
| When John W. Whitehead founded The Rutherford Institute as a Christian legal advocacy group in 1982, he was interested primarily in the First Amendment's religion clause, serving clients only when religious freedom was at stake. | Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. |
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| A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism Michael J. Perry (Cambridge University Press, 2017) | Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court Michael J. Perry (Cambridge University Press, 2008) |
| n A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly global morality in human history. | In this important new book, Michael J. Perry examines three of the most disputed constitutional issues of our time: capital punishment, state laws banning abortion, and state policies denying the benefit of law to same-sex unions. The author, a leading constitutional scholar, explains that if a majority of the justices of the Supreme Court believes that a law violates the Constitution, it does not necessarily follow that the Court should rule that the law is unconstitutional. |
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| Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States Michael J. Perry (Cambridge University Press, 2013) | The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy Michael J. Perry (Cambridge University Press, 2010) |
| In the period since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what never before existed: a truly global morality. Some of that morality - the morality of human rights - has become entrenched in the constitutional law of the United States. | In this important new work in political and constitutional theory, Michael Perry elaborates and defends an account of the political morality of liberal democracy: the moral convictions and commitments that in a liberal democracy should govern decisions about what laws to enact and what policies to pursue. |
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| Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts Michael J. Perry (Cambridge University Press, 2007) | Under Caesar's Sword: How Christians Respond to Persecution Daniel Philpott and Timothy Samuel Shah, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2018) |
| Neither the morality of human rights nor its relation to the law of human rights is well understood. In this book, Michael Perry addresses three large issues: o There is undeniably a religious ground - indeed, more than one religious ground - for the morality of human rights. But is there a nonreligious (secular) ground for the morality of human rights? | The global persecution of Christians is an urgent human rights issue that remains underreported. This volume presents the results of the first systematic global investigation into how Christians respond to persecution. World-class scholars of global Christianity present first-hand research from most of the sites of the harshest persecution as well as the West and Latin America. |
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| Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority Jean Porter (William B. Eerdmans, 2018) | The Hidden Gifts of Helping: How the Power of Giving, Compassion, and Hope Can Get Us Through Hard Times Stephen Post (Jossey-Bass, 2010) |
| Jean Porter is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her other books include Natural and Divine Law and Nature as Reason. | The world's religions affirm it to be so and recent research across a number of disciplines tell us that "Helping others not only benefits those we assist but is good for us as well." The recent and astonishingly generous outpouring of help and donations in response to the earthquake in Haiti is a clear demonstration of this phenomenon, but what if we could be convinced to make helping others a way of life, even when times are hard? |
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| To Have and to Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600 Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte, Jr., eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2007) | Pagans and Christians in the City Steven D. Smith (William B. Eerdmans, 2018) |
| This volume analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property settlements, prenuptial contracts, court testimony, church weddings, and more. The authors consider both the function of documentation in the process of marrying and what the surviving documents say about pre-modern marriage. | Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the US wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago in the Roman Empire faced similar challenges and questions. |
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| The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness Brent A. Strawn (Oxford University Press, 2012) | The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law, vol. 1 Brent A. Strawn (Oxford University Press, 2015) |
| Scholars of the social sciences have devoted increasing attention of late to the concept of human happiness, mainly from sociological and psychological perspectives. This groundbreaking volume, which includes twelve essays from scholars of the New Testament, the Old Testament, systematic theology, practical theology, and counseling psychology-along with an extensive introduction and epilogue by the editor-poses a new and exciting question: what is happiness according to the Bible? | The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law (OEBL) provides the most up-to-date and extensive treatment of the Bible and law yet attempted, both updating and expanding the scope of previous scholarship in the field. |
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| The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law, vol. 2 Brent Strawn (Oxford University Press, 2012) | Christianity and Human Rights (Journal of Law and Religion , 2015) |
| The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law (OEBL) provides the most up-to-date and extensive treatment of the Bible and law yet attempted, both updating and expanding the scope of previous scholarship in the field. | Symposium, 'Christianity and Human Rights.' Journal of Law and Religion 30 (2015): 353-495. |
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| The Foundations and Frontiers of Religious Liberty: A 25th Anniversary Celebration of the 1981 Declaration on Religious Tolerance (Emory International Law Review, 2007) | The Future of Law, Religion, and the Family (Emory Law Journal, 2009) |
| Symposium, 'The Foundations and Frontiers of Religious Liberty: A 25th Anniversary Celebration of the 1981 Declaration on Religious Tolerance,' Emory International Law Review 21 (2007): 1-276. | Symposium, 'The Future of Law, Religion, and the Family.' Emory Law Journal 58 (2009): 1-102. |
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| In Praise of a Legal Polymath: A Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Harold J. Berman (1918-2007) (Emory Law Journal, 2007) | The Pursuit of Happiness in Interreligious Perspective (Journal of Law and Religion, 2014) |
| Symposium, 'In Praise of a Legal Polymath: A Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Harold J. Berman (1918-2007).' Emory Law Journal 57 (2007): 1393-1643. | Symposium, 'The Pursuit of Happiness in Interreligious Perspective.' Journal of Law and Religion 29 (2014): 1-216. |
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| Religion, Human Rights, and Religious Freedom: A Symposium Issue (Fides et Libertas, 2010) | Religious Symbols on Government Property (Emory International Law Review, 2011) |
| Symposium, 'Religion, Human Rights, and Religious Freedom: A Symposium Issue.' Fides et Libertas (2010): 13-173. | Symposium, 'Religious Symbols on Government Property.' Emory International Law Review 25 (2011): 5-150. |
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| Sharia, Family, and Democracy: Religious Norms and Family law in Pluralistic Democratic States (Emory International Law Review, 2011) | What Christianity Offers to the World of Law (Journal of Law and Religion, 2017) |
| Symposium, 'Sharia, Family, and Democracy: Religious Norms and Family law in Pluralistic Democratic States.' Emory International Law Review 25 (2011): 779-1059. | Symposium, 'What Christianity Offers to the World of Law.' Journal of Law and Religion 32 (2017): 4-97. |
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| What's Wrong with Rights for Children? (Emory International Law Review, 2006) | Liberty Glenn Tender (William B. Eerdmans, 2007) |
| Symposium, 'What's Wrong with Rights for Children?' Emory International Law Review 20 (2006): 1-239. | Liberty is a dangerous concept. It's sure to be misused and, if left unchecked, will likely bring not social harmony and happiness but their opposites. Nonetheless, liberty is absolutely necessary: without it there can be no authentic community. People are not free to do the right thing unless they are free to do the wrong thing; if they can't be wrong, they can't be right. |
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| Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life Steven Tipton (University of Chicago, 2007 ) | Life to Come: Recreating Retirement Steven M. Tipton (United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 2018) |
| Steven M. Tipton examines the political activities of Methodists and mainline churches in this groundbreaking investigation into a generation of denominational strife among church officials, lobbyists, and activists. The result is an unusually detailed and thoughtful account that upends common stereotypes while asking searching questions about the contested relationship between church and state. | Retirement not only offers a time to rest from our labors and relax with family and friends--to travel, play, and have fun--but it beckons us to find our true calling in action, peace of mind in reflection, the spirit moving in the moment of each day, and the grace of God in prayer and love of neighbor. |
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| Family Transformed: Religion, Society, and Values in American Life Steven M. Tipton and John WItte, Jr., eds. (Georgetown University Press, 2007) | Calvin's Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church: Christ's Two Kingdoms Matthew J. Tuininga (Cambridge University Press, 2017) |
| Statistics on the American family are sobering. From 1975 to 2000, one-third of all children were born to single mothers, and one-half of all marriages ended in divorce. While children from broken homes are two to three times more likely to develop behavioral and learning difficulties, two-parent families are not immune to problems. The cost of raising children has increased dramatically, and married couples with children are now twice as likely as childless couples to file for bankruptcy. | In Calvin's Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church, Matthew J. Tuininga explores a little appreciated dimension of John Calvin's political thought, his two kingdoms theology, as a model for constructive Christian participation in liberal society. Widely misunderstood as a proto-political culture warrior, due in part to his often misinterpreted role in controversies over predestination and the heretic Servetus, Calvin articulated a thoughtful approach to public life rooted in his understanding of the gospel and its teaching concerning the kingdom of God. |
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| Conciliarism: A History of Decision-Making in the Church Paul Valliere (Cambridge University Press, 2012) | Divine Covenants and Moral Order: A Biblical Theology of Natural Law David VanDrunen (William B. Eerdmans , 2014) |
| Conciliarism is one of the oldest and most essential means of decision-making in the history of the Christian Church. Indeed, as a leading Orthodox theologian Alexander Schmemann states, 'Before we understand the place and the function of the council in the Church, we must, therefore, see the Church herself as a council.' | his book addresses the old question of natural law in its contemporary context. David VanDrunen draws on both his Reformed theological heritage and the broader Christian natural law tradition to develop a constructive theology of natural law through a thorough study of Scripture. |
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| Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms: A Study in the Development of Reformed Social Thought David VanDrunen (William B. Eerdmans, 2009) | Leuven Lectures on Religious Institutions, Religious Communities, and Rights Johan D. Vyver (Peeters, 2004) |
| Conventional wisdom holds that the theology and social ethics of the Reformed tradition stand at odds with concepts of natural law and the two kingdoms. This volume challenges that conventional wisdom through a study of Reformed social thought from the Reformation to the present. | Religious institutions, such as churches, are founded on organizational structures, constitute distinct entities in human society, and in their capacity as juristic persons are the repositories of rights and obligations. In certain jurisdictions the rights vested in a religious institution include constitutionally protected entitlements, such as the right to privacy, freedom of religion and belief, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and property rights. |
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| Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties John Witte, Jr. (Cambridge University Press, 2018) | From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion and Law in the Western Tradition John Witte, Jr. (Westminster John Knox Press, 2012) |
| This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While applauding modern sexual freedoms, John Witte, Jr. also defends the traditional Western teaching that the marital family is an essential cradle of conscience, chrysalis of care, and cornerstone of ordered liberty. He thus urges churches, states, and other social institutions to protect and promote the marital family. He encourages reticent churches to embrace the rights of women and children, as Christians have long taught, and encourages modern states to promote responsible sexual freedom and family relations, as liberals have long said. | In From Sacrament to Contract, John Witte, Jr. offers a study of five conflicting models of marriage--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, and Enlightenment--and their social and political impact over the last thousand years. In so doing, Witte, Jr. shows how we arrived at the notion of marriage as contract. |
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| God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition John Witte, Jr. (William B. Eerdmans, 2006) | The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism John Witte, Jr. (Cambridge University Press, 2007) |
| There are three things that people will die for -- their faith, their freedom, and their family. This volume focuses on all three, including the interactions among them, in the Western tradition and today. Retrieving and reconstructing a wealth of material from the earliest Hebrew and Greek texts of the West to the latest machinations of the Supreme Court, John Witte, Jr. explores the legal and theological foundations of authority and liberty, equality and dignity, rights and duties, marriage and family, crime and punishment, and similar topics. | John Calvin developed arresting new teachings on rights and liberties, church and state, and religion and politics that shaped the law of Protestant lands. Calvin's original teachings were periodically challenged by major crises - the French Wars of Religion, Dutch Revolt, the English Civil War, American colonization, and American Revolution. In each such crisis moment, a major Calvinist figure emerged - Theodore Beza, Johannes Althusius, John Milton, John Winthrop, John Adams, and others - who modernized Calvin's teachings and translated them into dramatic new legal and political reforms. |
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| The Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered John Witte, Jr. (Cambridge University Press, 2009) | The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy John Witte, Jr. (Cambridge University Press, 2015) |
| For nearly two millennia, Western law visited the sins of fathers and mothers upon their illegitimate children, subjecting them to systematic discrimination and deprivation. The graver the sins of their parents, the further these children fell in social standing and legal protection. While some reformers have sought to better the plight of illegitimate children, only in recent decades has illegitimacy lost its full legal sting. Yet the social, economic, and psychological costs of illegitimacy still remain high even in the liberal, affluent West | For more than 2,500 years, the Western tradition has embraced monogamous marriage as an essential institution for the flourishing of men and women, parents and children, society and the state. At the same time, polygamy has been considered a serious crime that harms wives and children, correlates with sundry other crimes and abuses, and threatens good citizenship and political stability. |
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| Sex, Marriage and Family in John Calvin's Geneva 1: Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage. John Witte, Jr. and Robert M. Kingdom, eds. (William B. Eerdmans, 2006) | Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2010) |
| You would not expect this from his dour reputation, but John Calvin transformed the Western understanding of sex, marriage, and family life. In this fascinating, even sensational, volume John Witte and Robert Kingdon treat comprehensively the new theology and law of domestic life that Calvin and his fellow reformers established in sixteenth-century Geneva. Bringing to light and life hundreds of newly discovered cases and theological texts, Witte, Jr. and Kingdon trace the subtle historical forms and norms of sex, marriage, and family life that still shape us today. | Combining Jewish, Greek, and Roman teachings with the radical new teachings of Christ and St. Paul, Christianity helped to cultivate the cardinal ideas of dignity, equality, liberty and democracy that ground the modern human rights paradigm. Christianity also helped shape the law of public, private, penal, and procedural rights that anchor modern legal systems in the West and beyond. |
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| Modern Christian Teachings on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, vol 1. John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander, eds. (Columbia University Press, 2007) | Modern Christian Teachings on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, vol 2. John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander, eds. (Columbia University Press, 2007) |
| The first volume examines modern Christian thinkers' views on the most pressing political, legal, and ethical questions of our time. The essays present a vital new understanding of the diversity and richness of modern Christian legal and political thought from 1880 to the present. The contributors reveal the theological roots of modern legal systems as well as the relevance of modern Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox thought to current debates about the family, state, religion, and society. | Divided into two volumes, The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature offers a landmark collection of writings from twenty Christian thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and analyses of their work by leading contemporary religious scholars.With selections from the works of Jacques Maritain, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Dorothy Day, Pope John Paul II, Susan B. Anthony, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King Jr., Nikolai Berdyaev, Vladimir Lossky, and others, Volume 2 illustrates the different venues, vectors, and sometimes-conflicting visions of what a Christian understanding of law, politics, and society entails. |
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| Modern Christian Teachings on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, vol 3. John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander, eds. (Columbia University Press, 2007) | Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia: The New War for Souls John Witte, Jr. and Michael Bordeaux, eds. (Wipf and Stock, 2009) |
| The Teachings of Modern Orthodox Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature examines how modern Orthodox Christian thinkers have answered the most pressing political, legal, and ethical questions of our time. It discusses the enduring teachings of important Orthodox Christian intellectuals of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. | Few of the struggles Russia has undergone since the fall of Communism have been fiercer than that being fought between the long-repressed Russian Orthodox Church and a host of groups seeking to evangelize the Russian people. This volume assesses the legitimacy of the Orthodox attempt to reclaim the spiritual and moral heart of the Russian people and to retain their adherence in a new, pluralistic world where many Christians and followers of other traditions seek the right to establish themselves. |
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| Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective John Witte, Jr. and Eliza Ellison (William B. Eerdmans, 2005) | Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction John Witte, Jr. and Christian M. Green, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2012) |
| Covenant marriages requiring premarital counseling and tighter strictures on divorce have recently emerged in some American states. At the same time, the doctrine of covenant has reemerged in religious circles as a common way to map the spiritual dimensions of marriage. | The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most importantly, religions provide the essential sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, restitution and reconciliation that a human rights regime needs to survive and flourish in any culture. |
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| The Equal Regard Family and Its Friendly Critics John Witte, Jr., Christian M. Green, and Amy Wheeler, eds. (William B. Eerdmans, 2007) | Christianity and Family Law: An Introduction John Witte, Jr. and Gary S. Hauk, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2017) |
| This volume is both a celebration and an evaluation of the work on sex, marriage, and family life by Don S. Browning, the dean of modern family studies in theological ethics and practical theology. Scholars probe a number of Browning's contributions, particularly his call for an ethic of "equal regard" within the household and wider society. This book is a true interdisciplinary effort, with insights from psychology, history, law, theology, biology, ethics, feminist theology, childhood studies, and education theory. The Equal-Regard Family and Its Friendly Critics includes seven honorary forewords, ten original essays, and a concluding essay by Don Browning himself. | The Western tradition has always cherished the family as an essential foundation of a just and orderly society, and thus accorded it special legal and religious protection. Christianity embraced this teaching from the start, and many of the basics of Western family law were shaped by the Christian theologies of nature, sacrament, and covenant. This volume introduces readers to the enduring and evolving Christian norms and teachings on betrothals and weddings; marriage and divorce; women's and children's rights; marital property and inheritance; and human sexuality and intimate relationships. |
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| Sharing the Book: Religious Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism John Witte, Jr. and Richard C. Martin, eds. (Wipf and Stock, 2008) | The Protestant Reformation of the Church and the World John Witte, Jr. and Amy Wheeler, eds. (Westminster John Knox Press, 2018) |
| More than a dozen religious leaders offer authoritative statements and analyses of classic and contemporary perspectives on mission activity and conversion in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. | From a distinguished assembly of twelve internationally acclaimed scholars comes this rich, interdisciplinary study that explores the Protestant Reformation and its resultant effects on the church as well as the world. The Reformation extended from the church to revolutionize art, music, literature, architecture, and aesthetics and transformed economics, trade, and banking; these transformations shifted power away from the church to the state as they unleashed radical new campaigns for freedom, equality, democracy, and constitutional order. |
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| Justice in Love Nicholas Wolterstorff (William B. Eerdmans, 2015) | The Mighty and the Almighty: An Essay in Political Theology Nicholas Wolterstorff (Cambridge University Press, 2015) |
| Love and justice have long been prominent themes in the moral culture of the West, yet they are often considered to be almost hopelessly at odds with one another. In this book acclaimed Christian philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff shows that justice and love are at heart perfectly compatible, and he argues that the commonly perceived tension between them reveals something faulty in our understanding of each. True benevolent love, he says, is always attentive to justice, and love that wreaks injustice can only ever be "malformed love." | For a century or more political theology has been in decline. Recent years, however, have seen increasing interest not only in how church and state should be related, but in the relation between divine authority and political authority, and in what religion has to say about the limits of state authority and the grounds of political obedience. In this book, Nicholas Wolterstorff addresses this whole complex of issues. He takes account of traditional answers to these questions, but on every point stakes out new positions. |
First Name: Nicholas Last Name: Wolterstorff | First Name: Nicholas Last Name: Wolterstorff |
