Law and Theology

by Belsky, Martin H.; Bessler-northcutt, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780890892138
• ISBN10: 089089213X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Table of Cases	xix
Table of Authorities	xxi
Introduction Learning to Think Like Lawyers and Theologians	3	(1)
Section One: Lawyers and the Legal Environment	3	(1)
Section Two: Religion and the New Religious Situation	4	(2)
A New Religious America: How A `Christian Country' Has Now Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation	5	(1)
Diana Eck
Note	6	(1)
Section Three: Thinking Like a Lawyer	6	(2)
Section Four: Thinking Like a Theologian	8	(1)
Section 5: The Conflict of Interpretations	9	(16)
A Constitutional Faith	10	(1)
Hugo Black
How to Read the Constitution	11	(2)
William Brennan
Note	13	(1)
Theological Method in Clark H. Pinnock and Delwin Brown, eds., Theological Crossfire: An Evangelical-Liberal Dialogue	13	(3)
Delwin Brown
Theological Method in Clark H. Pinnock and Delwin Brown, eds., Theological Crossfire: An Evangelical-Liberal Dialogue	16	(3)
Clark H. Pinnock
Notes	19	(1)
What Is a Jew?	19	(2)
Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer
Notes	21	(4)
Part One Equality
African-Americans: Slavery and Segregation	25	(30)
Section One: Slavery	25	(16)
Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation	26	(2)
Katie Cannon
Notes	28	(2)
An Inquiry into the Scriptural Views of Slavery	30	(2)
Albert Barnes
Note	32	(1)
Scott v. Sandford	32	(9)
Notes	41	(1)
Section Two: Segregation	41	(14)
Plessy v. Ferguson	42	(4)
Notes	46	(1)
Brown v. Board of Education	46	(2)
Notes	48	(1)
Men of God in Racial Crisis	49	(3)
Ernest Q. Campbell
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Notes	52	(3)
Women	55	(16)
Woman's Bible	55	(4)
Cady Stanton
Note	59	(1)
Report of Committee on Baptist Faith and Message	59	(2)
Rosemary Radford Ruether, The War on Women	61	(4)
Note	65	(1)
Bradwell v. State	65	(2)
Notes	67	(1)
United States v. Virginia	67	(2)
Note	69	(2)
Gays and Lesbians	71	(30)
Bowers v. Hardwick	71	(3)
Notes	74	(1)
Lawrence v. Texas	75	(6)
Notes	81	(2)
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons	83	(4)
Notes	87	(1)
Walter Wink, Homosexuality and the Bible	88	(8)
Notes	96	(5)
Part Two Protecting America's Faith-Based Society
From Disestablishment to a New Great Awakening?	101	(30)
Section One: ``Disestablishment'' a Brief History	101	(13)
The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America	101	(3)
Sidney Mead
Notes	104	(1)
Religious Pluralism and the Quest for Unity in American Life	105	(1)
Derek H. Davis
Notes	106	(1)
A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical Realities	107	(1)
Robert Handy
Notes	108	(1)
Catholics and American Culture	108	(1)
Mark Massa
Notes	109	(1)
Spiritual Politics: Religion and America since World War II	110	(1)
Mark Silk
Notes	111	(1)
Statement by Sir Sigmund Stemberg at the Templeton Prize News Conference	112	(1)
Notes	113	(1)
Section Two: Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization	114	(6)
Religion in American Public Life	114	(1)
A. J. Reichley
Notes	115	(1)
A Theology for the Social Gospel	115	(1)
Walter Rauschenbusch
Notes	116	(1)
Lochner v. New York	117	(2)
Notes	119	(1)
Section Three: Contemporary America's Religious Evolution	120	(11)
The Restructuring of American Religion	120	(2)
Robert Wuthnow
Notes	122	(1)
Zealot Politics and Democracy: The Case of the New Christian Right	123	(1)
Steve Bruce
Notes	124	(1)
Kicking The Secularist Habit: A Six Step Program	125	(3)
David Brooks
Notes	128	(1)
Antidisestablishmentarianism: The Religion Clauses at the End of the Millennium	129	(2)
Martin H. Belsky
Freedom from Religion: The Establishment Clause	131	(20)
Section One: School Prayer	131	(7)
Engel v. Vitale	131	(2)
School District of Abington TP. v. Schempp	133	(1)
Notes	134	(1)
Editorial, The Court Decides Wisely	135	(1)
Notes	135	(2)
Competing for God's Ear	137	(1)
Martin E. Marty
Section Two: The Pledge of Allegiance	138	(2)
Taking the Pledge	139	(1)
Martin H. Belsky
Notes	140	(1)
Section Three: The Ten Commandments	140	(11)
Stone v. Graham	140	(2)
Notes	142	(1)
Putting God Back in the Public Square	142	(3)
Roy S. Moore
Glassroth v. Moore	145	(5)
Notes	150	(1)
Freedom of Religion: A Pragmatic Approach	151	(24)
Section One: A Flexible Wall	151	(2)
Lynch v. Donnelly	151	(2)
Notes	153	(1)
Section Two: ``Charitable Choice''	153	(22)
The `Charitable Choice' Charade	153	(2)
Rob Boston
Notes	155	(1)
Churches As Government Partners: Navigating `Charitable Choice'	156	(2)
Amy L. Sherman
Notes	158	(1)
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris	159	(6)
Notes	165	(1)
Executive Order 13279	166	(3)
Notes	169	(1)
Locke v. Davey	170	(3)
Notes	173	(2)
Freedom for Religion: The Free Exercise Clause	175	(36)
Section One: Sabbath	176	(10)
McGowen v. Maryland	176	(1)
Braunfeld v. Brown	177	(1)
Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market	178	(2)
Note	180	(1)
Sherbert v. Verner	181	(1)
Note	182	(1)
Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison	182	(4)
Section Two: Free Exercise of Religion	186	(25)
Wisconsin v. Yoder	186	(1)
Goldman v. Weinberger	187	(3)
Notes	190	(1)
Reynolds v. United States	190	(1)
Notes	191	(1)
Peyote, Wine and the First Amendment	192	(1)
Douglas Laycock
Employment Division v. Smith	193	(3)
Notes	196	(1)
Antidisestablishmentarianism: The Religion Clauses at the End of the Millennium	197	(1)
Martin H. Belsky
Notes	197	(1)
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah	198	(3)
Notes	201	(1)
Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints et al. v. Amos et al.	201	(2)
Note	203	(1)
God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics	204	(7)
Stephen L. Carter
Part Three Human Life
Evolution	211	(14)
The New Creationists	211	(1)
Benjamin Mcarthur
Notes	212	(1)
The New Creationists	212	(1)
Benjamin Mcarthur
Note	213	(1)
Epperson v. Kansas	213	(3)
Notes	216	(1)
The New Creationists	216	(4)
Benjamin Mcarthur
Note	220	(1)
Creationism's Value	220	(3)
Richard J. Clifford
Notes	223	(2)
Abortion	225	(24)
Roe v. Wade	225	(5)
Note	230	(1)
Privacy: The Rehnquist Court's Unmentionable ``Right''	230	(2)
Martin H. Belsky
Note	232	(1)
Evangelium Vitae	232	(6)
Pope John Paul II
Note	238	(1)
A Moral Choice	238	(3)
Mary Gordon
What Judaism Says about Abortion	241	(1)
Alan Luxenberg
Notes	242	(1)
You Are God's Beloved Child: A Collection of Sermons & Writings	243	(3)
Russell L. Bennett
Notes	246	(3)
Death and Dying	249	(14)
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health	249	(4)
Notes	253	(1)
Evangelium Vitae	253	(2)
Pope John Paul II
Note	255	(1)
Assisted Suicide	255	(4)
Elliot N. Dorff
Killing, Karma and Caring: Euthanasia in Buddhism and Christianity	259	(1)
Damien Keown
Notes	260	(3)
Death Penalty	263	(28)
Religious Conservatives and the Death Penalty	264	(3)
Thomas C. Berg
Islam and the Death Penalty	267	(2)
William A. Schabas
Note	269	(1)
Furman v. Georgia	269	(5)
Notes	274	(1)
Gregg v. Georgia	274	(4)
Notes	278	(1)
Stanford v. Kentucky	279	(3)
Notes	282	(1)
Atkins v. Virginia	282	(9)
Part Four Law and Theology in the 21st Century
Religion and Politics	291	(34)
Section One: America's Civil Religion	292	(10)
Civil Religion in America	292	(4)
Robert Bellah
Notes	296	(2)
Divided We Fall: America's Two Civil Religions	298	(4)
Robert Wuthnow
Note	302	(1)
Section Two: Religion and Public Office	302	(7)
John Kennedy	302	(1)
John Deedy
Remarks to the Houston Ministerial Association	303	(1)
John F. Kennedy
Notes	304	(1)
The Church-State Debate: The Governor and the Bishops Appeal to Heaven	305	(1)
Charles Krauthammer
Notes	306	(3)
Section Three: Religion and Political Change	309	(16)
Dangers---and Rights---of a Politically Active Clergy	309	(1)
Notes	310	(1)
Edwards v. South Carolina	311	(1)
Notes	311	(1)
Problem of Politics As Sunday Worship	312	(1)
Richard P. McBrien
Note	313	(1)
`Not of This World': A Conservative Argues the Religious Right Is Going Wrong by Focusing on Politics Instead of Prayer	314	(1)
Cal Thomas
Notes	315	(1)
Federal Election Commission v. The Christian Coalition	316	(6)
Notes	322	(3)
Civil Society under Pressure	325	(38)
Section One: Priest Pedophilia	325	(7)
``Sins --- and Crimes --- of Our Fathers''	325	(1)
Thomas H. Groome
Notes	326	(1)
Rochelle L. v. Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco	327	(5)
Note	332	(1)
Section Two: War and Terrorism	332	(31)
Korematsu v. United States	333	(5)
Notes	338	(1)
Muslims Face Vandalism, Threats after Attacks	338	(1)
Gill Donovan
Notes	339	(2)
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld	341	(7)
Notes	348	(1)
Jihad against Jews and Crusaders: A Statement by the World Islamic Front	349	(1)
This Is a Religious War	350	(3)
Andrew Sullivan
Notes	353	(1)
John Darby Meets Saddam Hussein: Foreign Policy and Bible Prophecy	354	(2)
Paul S. Boyer
Notes	356	(1)
Authoritarianism in Abrahamic Traditions	357	(1)
Ann Pettifer
Notes	358	(1)
Turning to the Islamic Faith	359	(2)
Karima Diane Alavi
Notes	361	(2)
Index	363