Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction xvii
6. Part I. Christian Perspectives on Schools of Legal Thought
7. Section 1. Enlightenment Liberalism
8. Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, and People of Faith 1
9. Liberal Hegemony and Religious Resistance: An Essay on Legal Theory 25
10. Christianity and the Roots of Liberalism 54
11. The Earthly Peace of the Liberal Republic 73
12. Section 2. Legal Realism
13. A Century of Skepticism 93
14. Section 3. Critical Legal Studies
15. Law and Belief: Critical Legal Studies and Philosophy of the Law-Idea 107
16. Section 4. Critical Race Theory
17. What’s Love Got to Do with It? Race Relations and the Second Great Commandment 131
18. Reinhold Niebuhr and Critical Race Theory 149
19. Hispanics, Catholicism, and the Legal Academy 163
20. Section 5. Feminism
21. Independence or Interdependence? A Christian Response to Liberal Feminists 177
22. Citizen-Soldiers Are Like Priests: Feminism in Law and Theology 194
23. Section 6. Law and Economics
24. Law and Economics: An Apologia 207
25. A Catholic Social Teaching Critique of Law and Economics 224
26. Part II. Christian Traditions and the Law
27. Christian Traditions, Culture, and Law 241
28. Section 1. Synthesists: Reconciling Christ and Law
29. A Catholic View of Law and Justice 253
30. Natural Law 277
31. Section 2. Conversionists: Christ Transforming Law
32. The Calvinist Paradox of Distrust and Hope at the Constitutional Convention 291
33. A Calvinist Perspective on the Place of Faith in Legal Scholarship 307
34. Section 3. Separatists: Christ Against Law
35. The Radical Reformation and the Jurisprudence of Forgiveness 319
36. “Incendiaries of Commonwealths”: Baptists and Law 340
37. On Liberty and Life in Babylon: A Pilgrim’s Pragmatic Proposal 354
38. Section 4. Dualists: Christ and Law in Tension
39. A House Divided? Anabaptist and Lutheran Perspectives on the Sword 369
40. Making Our Home in the Works of God: Lutherans on the Civil Use of the Law 386
41. Part III. Christian Perspectives on Substantive Areas of the Law
42. God’s Joust, God’s Justice: An Illustration from the History of Marriage Law 405
43. Human Nature and Criminal Responsibility: The Biblical View Restored 426
44. Christianity and Environmental Law 435
45. Can Legal Ethics Be Christian? 453
46. A Historical Perspective on Anglo-American Contract Law 470
47. Tort Law and Intermediate Communities: Calvinist and Catholic Insights 486
48. Contributors 505
49. Index 511