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Faith And The Liberal Legal Order: An Appreciative Response To Shaffer And The Symbolism Workshop, Elizabeth B. Mensch
Faith And The Liberal Legal Order: An Appreciative Response To Shaffer And The Symbolism Workshop, Elizabeth B. Mensch
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Faith Tends To Subvert Legal Order, Thomas L. Shaffer
Faith Tends To Subvert Legal Order, Thomas L. Shaffer
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Two old friends and colleagues died in the spring of 1997. Both share with me a Baptist boyhood and a Roman Catholic middle age. Both showed me that the relevance of religion to a lawyer's work is best approached with believers' irony.
Frank Booker, descendant of Cherokee Indians, Missouri farmers, railroaders, and Baptist ministers, taught law at Stetson and then Notre Dame, with a style all his own and with a steady eye on how important the law is. After his funeral, one of his students remembered for me a day in Frank's first-year torts class. They were several weeks …
Lamas, Oracles, Channels, And The Law: Reconsidering Religion And Social Theory, Rebecca Redwood French
Lamas, Oracles, Channels, And The Law: Reconsidering Religion And Social Theory, Rebecca Redwood French
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On The Practical Meaning Of Secularism, John M. Finnis
On The Practical Meaning Of Secularism, John M. Finnis
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The secularism I consider in this Article is a public reality, the secularism which shapes public debate, deliberation, dispositions, and action, and dominates our education and culture. I shall be considering the ideas, not the people; and people are often less consistent, and better, than their theories. There is no profit in estimating whether secularism's dominance now is greater than in Plato's Athens or lesser than in Stalin's Leningrad. There is certainly a rich field for historical investigation of the particular and often peculiar forms taken by western secularism under the influence of the faith it supplants. But I shall …
The Religious Dimension Of Judicial Decision Making And The Defacto Disestablishment, Mark C. Modak-Truran
The Religious Dimension Of Judicial Decision Making And The Defacto Disestablishment, Mark C. Modak-Truran
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Despite the de facto disestablishment of religion, I will try to illustrate the centrality of religion as a resource for understanding judicial decision making. The central question for this inquiry is: What, if any, is the role of religious beliefs in judicial decision making?