Faith and Order

by Berman, Harold J.

• ISBN13: 9781555408527
• ISBN10: 1555408524
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-10-01
• Publisher: Scholars Pr

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Religious Dimensions of Law	p. 1
Historical Themes
Why the History of Western Law is Not Written	p. 23
The Religious Foundations of Western Law	p. 35
Medieval English Equity	p. 55
Law and Belief in Three Revolutions	p. 83
The Transformation of Western Legal Philosophy in Lutheran Germany	p. 141
The Religious Sources of General Contract Law: An Historical Perspective	p. 187
The Interaction of Law and Religion in American Constitutional History	p. 209
Religious Freedom and the Challenge of the Modern State	p. 221
Sociological and Philosophical Themes
Some False Premises of Max Weber's Sociology of Law	p. 239
Individualistic and Communitarian Theories of Justice: An Historical Approach	p. 251
Law and Religion in the Development of a World Order	p. 277
Toward an Integrative Jurisprudence: Politics, Morality, History	p. 289
Theological, Prophetic, and Educational Themes
Law and Love	p. 313
Judaic-Christian versus Pagan Scholarship	p. 319
Law and History After the World Wars	p. 323
The Crisis of Legal Education in America	p. 333
Is There Such a Thing - Can There Be Such a Thing - as a Christian Law School?	p. 341
Russian and Soviet Themes
Atheism and Christianity in Soviet Russia	p. 355
The Use of Law to Guide People to Virtue: A Comparison of Soviet and U.S. Perspectives	p. 367
The Weightier Matters of the Law: A Response to Solzhenitsyn	p. 381
Christianity and Democracy in Soviet Russia	p. 393
Acknowledgements	p. 403
Index	p. 405
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