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The Forest And The Trees: What Educational Purposes Can A Course On Christian Legal Thought Serve?, Randy Beck
The Forest And The Trees: What Educational Purposes Can A Course On Christian Legal Thought Serve?, Randy Beck
Journal of Catholic Legal Studies
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In this short essay, I want to consider the educational purposes a course in Christian legal thought might serve. How could having such a course in the curriculum help accomplish the goals of legal education? One can understand why a law school with a Christian identity would want to offer this sort of course. Such law schools embrace a theology that helps adherents make sense of the world, including the world of human law. The less obvious question I want to consider is why a law school that does not subscribe to a particular theological understanding of the world …