Books in the Law and Christianity series

Analyzing Christian influences on Western family law over the past two millennia, this volume explores marriage and divorce, women's and children's rights, marital property and inheritance, and human sexuality. In twenty-five lively and accessible chapters, readers are exposed to the enduring and evolving Christian norms and teachings on family life.

Drawing on classical natural law to bridge the gaps between human and divine law, Taliaferro expounds a new, practical theory of religious freedom for the modern world, and lucidly explains the challenges involved. This book will appeal to scholars of religion, and law, as well as classical Judaism, Christianity and Islamic studies.

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of academic experts on market regulation to reconsider the impact of Christianity on market regulation. Drawing on law, economics, history, theology, philosophy, and political theory, it will be of interest to a broad audience of scholars and students.

In Calvin's Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church, Matthew J. Tuininga explores a little appreciated dimension of John Calvin's political thought, his two kingdoms theology, as a model for constructive Christian participation in liberal society. Widely misunderstood as a proto-political culture warrior, due in part to his often misinterpreted role in controversies over predestination and the heretic Servetus, Calvin articulated a thoughtful approach to public life rooted in his understanding of the gospel and its teaching concerning the kingdom of God. He staked his ministry in Geneva on his commitment to keeping the church distinct from the state, abandoning simplistic approaches that placed one above the other, while rejecting the temptations of sectarianism or separatism. This revealing analysis of Calvin's vision offers timely guidance for Christians seeking a mode of faithful, respectful public engagement in democratic, pluralistic communities today.

These intellectual biographies illustrate the rich and enduring interactions between Christianity and law by examining the contributions that twenty Spanish jurists have made over the centuries to legal ideals, institutions, and practice, and how their Christian faith informed their thinking about the law.

The global persecution of Christians is an urgent human rights issue, yet remains underreported in the mainstream media and by human rights organizations. In this volume a group of well-respected scholars investigates contemporary persecutions of Christians in twenty-four nations and how Christians have responded to these actions.

This book profiles nineteen of America's most influential Christian jurists from the early colonial era to the present day. It will be of interest to anyone interested in American legal history and jurisprudence, the role Christianity has played throughout the nation's history, and the relationship between faith and law.

An anthology of essays by experts in diverse historical fields, designed for entry-level students as well as for scholars, showing how Christians of the first millennium in the West understood law and used written norms and corrective practices to maintain social order and to ensure salvation.

How would we understand early modern political context differently if we accounted for the theological commitments of early modern resistance theorists? The Immortal Commonwealth argues that by taking these theological sources seriously, we have a richer, truer perspective on early modern radical political thought.

This volume examines the lives of twenty-seven French jurists from the vantage point of their professed Christian faith. By studying the contributions these French jurists have made over the centuries, this volume illustrates the rich and enduring interactions between Christianity and law and provides a rich interdisciplinary methodology.

The influence of Christianity on Western legal thought is of interest to a broad audience of scholars and students. This authoritative work will be a welcome reference, providing a unique study of the pervasive influence of Christianity in jurisprudence and legal scholarship in both common law and civil law jurisdictions.

This book will be of interest to students, teachers, and scholars in a variety of fields, including law, theology and religious studies, political science, philosophy, and history. The essays, by leading scholars from these fields, address classic theological issues as well as contemporary debates in law and politics.

Millions of men, women, and children who enter the United States unlawfully are deemed 'illegal aliens' under United States immigration law. Where do these migrants stand within Christian ethics? This book explains the rise of the illegal alien and responds to the law through a theological account of politics.

These intellectual biographies illustrate the rich and enduring interactions between Christianity and law by examining the contributions that twenty Spanish jurists have made over the centuries to legal ideals, institutions, and practice, and how their Christian faith informed their thinking about the law.

Analyzing Christian influences on Western family law over the past two millennia, this volume explores marriage and divorce, women's and children's rights, marital property and inheritance, and human sexuality. In twenty-five lively and accessible chapters, readers are exposed to the enduring and evolving Christian norms and teachings on family life.

A suitable text for graduate courses and upper level undergraduate seminars in religious ethics, moral theology and related subjects. Will be of interest to nearly anyone in the humanities or social sciences fields.

Millions of men, women, and children who enter the United States unlawfully are deemed 'illegal aliens' under United States immigration law. Where do these migrants stand within Christian ethics? This book explains the rise of the illegal alien and responds to the law through a theological account of politics.

The influence of Christianity on Western legal thought is of interest to a broad audience of scholars and students. This authoritative work will be a welcome reference, providing a unique study of the pervasive influence of Christianity in jurisprudence and legal scholarship in both common law and civil law jurisdictions.

This book is designed for those studying and teaching law or theology, those who practice and study ecumenism, those involved in the practice of church law, and those studying and teaching law or theology to understand how different Christian traditions have historically approached natural law.

This book will be of interest to students, teachers, and scholars in a variety of fields, including law, theology and religious studies, political science, philosophy, and history. The essays, by leading scholars from these fields, address classic theological issues as well as contemporary debates in law and politics.

Volume 2 of Christianity and Freedom examines the contributions of Christian minorities to societies across the globe in the midst of pressure and violent persecution. Including original field research, it offers a timely perspective on hot-button issues of social justice and religious liberty.

In Volume 1 of Christianity and Freedom, leading historians uncover the unappreciated role of Christianity in the development of civic, economic, and political freedoms from antiquity through today. Drawing from political science and sociology, it will be a standard reference work for historians, religion scholars, and students.

In Volume 1 of Christianity and Freedom, leading historians uncover the unappreciated role of Christianity in the development of civic, economic, and political freedoms from antiquity through today. Drawing from political science and sociology, it will be a standard reference work for historians, religion scholars, and students.

An indispensable guide to how marriage acquired the status of a sacrament. This book analyzes in detail how medieval theologians explained the place of matrimony in the church and her law, and how the bitter debates of the sixteenth century elevated the doctrine to a dogma of the Catholic faith.

Volume 2 of Christianity and Freedom examines the contributions of Christian minorities to societies across the globe in the midst of pressure and violent persecution. Including original field research, it offers a timely perspective on hot-button issues of social justice and religious liberty.

In recent decades, religion's traditional distinctiveness under the First Amendment has been challenged by courts and scholars. As America grows more secular and as religious and nonreligious convictions are increasingly seen as interchangeable, many have questioned whether special treatment is still fair. In its recent decisions, the Supreme Court has made clear that religion will continue to be treated differently, but we lack a persuasive account of religion's uniqueness that can justify this difference. This book aims to develop such an account. Drawing on founding era thought illumined by theology, philosophy of religion, and comparative religion, it describes what is at stake in our tradition of religious freedom in a way that can be appreciated by the religious and nonreligious alike. From this account, it develops a new framework for religion clause decision making and explains the implications of this framework for current controversies regarding protections for religious conscience.

John Witte, Jr documents the historical arguments for monogamy over polygamy in the West from antiquity until today. Weighing traditional arguments alongside modern claims that anti-polygamy laws violate personal and religious freedom, Witte finds that the case against polygamy remains compelling.

This timely book offers a theistic approach to secular legal systems and demonstrates that these systems are neither agnostic nor atheist. Critical but succinct in its approach, this book focuses on an extensive range of liberal legal approaches to religious and moral issues, and subject them to critical scrutiny from a secular perspective.

This book presents a model of relevant cultural engagement for religious communities with its basis in John Calvin's two kingdoms theology. Matthew J. Tuininga outlines a mode of participation in democratic politics in a way that takes faith seriously while accepting pluralism and respecting the rights of others.