God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western TraditionWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006 M10 31 - 498 páginas 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 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. God's Joust, God's Justice is a lucid scholarly introduction to the burgeoning field of law and religion and a learned historical inquiry into the weightier matters of the law. |
Contenido
Gods Joust Gods Justice | 1 |
A Short History of Western Rights | 31 |
Human Dignity Liberty | 49 |
Catholic | 63 |
The Clash of Eastern | 114 |
Puritan Contributions | 143 |
That Serpentine Wall of Separation Between | 207 |
vii | 214 |
An Apt and Cheerful Conversation on Marriage | 295 |
The Goods and Goals of Marriage | 322 |
Marriage As Contract | 364 |
The Perils of Clerical Celibacy | 386 |
The Sin and Crime | 398 |
The Vocation of the Child | 423 |
The Challenges of Christian Jurisprudence | 450 |
The Cathedral of the Law | 466 |
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