This book explores for the first time the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Eminent legal scholars including Stephen Carter, Thomas Shaffer, Elizabeth Mensch, Gerard Bradley, and Marci Hamilton describe how various Christian traditions, including the Catholic, Calvinist, Anabaptist, and Lutheran traditions, understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and human striving. The book reveals not only the diversity among Christian legal thinkers but also the richness of the Christian tradition as a source for intellectual and ethical approaches to legal inquiry.
The contributors bring various perspectives to the subject. Some engage the prominent schools of legal thought: liberalism, legal realism, critical legal studies, feminism, critical race theory, and law and economics. Others address substantive areas, including environmental, criminal, contract, torts, and family law, as well as professional responsibility. Together the essays introduce a new school of legal thought that will make a signal contribution to contemporary discussions of law.
Foreword xi Harold J. Berman Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Part One Christian Perspectives on Schools of Legal Thought Enlightenment Liberalism Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, and People of Faith 5(20) Michael W. McConnell Liberal Hegemony and Religious Resistance: An Essay on Legal Theory 25(29) Stephen L. Carter Christianity and the Roots of Liberalism 54(19) Elizabeth Mensch The Earthly Peace of the Liberal Republic 73(21) H. Jefferson Powell Legal Realism A Century of Skepticism 94(15) Albert W. Alschuler Critical Legal Studies Law and Belief: Critical Legal Studies and Philosophy of the Law-Idea 109(24) David S. Caudill Critical Race Theory Whats Love Got to Do with It? Race Relations and the Second Great Commandment 133(16) W. Burlette Carter Reinhold Niebuhr and Critical Race Theory 149(14) Davison M. Douglas Hispanics, Catholicism, and the Legal Academy 163(15) Jose Roberto Juarez, Jr. Feminism Independence or Interdependence? A Christian Response to Liberal Feminists 178(16) Teresa Stanton Collett Citizen-Soldiers Are Like Priests: Feminism in Law and Theology 194(14) Leslie Griffin Law and Economics Law and Economics: An Apologia 208(16) Stephen M. Bainbridge A Catholic Social Teaching Critique of Law and Economics 224(18) George E. Garvey Part Two Christian Traditions and the Law Christian Traditions, Culture, and Law 242(13) Robert F. Cochran, Jr. Synthesists: Reconciling Christ and Law A Catholic View of Law and Justice 255(22) Angela C. Carmella Natural Law 277(16) Gerard V. Bradley Conversionists: Christ Transforming Law The Calvinist Paradox of Distrust and Hope at the Constitutional Convention 293(14) Marci A. Hamilton A Calvinist Perspective on the Place of Faith in Legal Scholarship 307(14) David S. Caudill Separatists: Christ Against Law The Redical Reformation and the Jurisprudence of Forgiveness 321(19) Thomas L. Shaffer ``Incendiaries of Commonwealths: Baptists and Law 340(14) Timothy L. Hall On Liberty and Life in Babylon: A Pilgrims Pragmatic Proposal 354(16) Richard F. Duncan Dualists: Christ and Law in Tension A House Divided? Anabaptist and Lutheran Perspectives on the Sword 370(16) David M. Smolin Making Our Home in the Works of God: Lutherans on the Civil Use of the Law 386(20) Marie A. Failinger Patrick R. Keifert Part Three Christian Perspectives on Substantive Areas of the Law Gods Joust, Gods Justice: An Illustration from the History of Marriage Law 406(20) John Witte, Jr. Human Nature and Criminal Responsibility: The Biblical View Restored 426(9) Phillip E. Johnson Christianity and Environmental Law 435(18) John Copeland Nagle Can Legal Ethics Be Christian? 453(17) Joseph G. Allegretti A Historical Perspective on Anglo-American Contract Law 470(16) Catherine M.A. Mc Cauliff Tort Law and Intermediate Communities: Calvinist and Catholic Insights 486(19) Robert F. Cochran, Jr. Contributors 505(6) Index 511
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