Law and Christianity

After the war, our legal system has been greatly influenced by American thought. The author has found it significant to search out legal thought in the United States. This article deals with “Law and Christianity” in the United States for about two decades since 1957. The research is based on the idea in natural law, giving consideration to the war induced by legal positivism in pre-war Europe. “Law and Christianity” was the theme of a symposium in Massachusetts in 1957. The discussions concentrated on various problems Christian jurists were confronted with, and also on those raised from the historical and philosophical standpoints in law. Prof. Harold J. Berman advocated that Christianity could not be overlooked during the course of development in legal idea. In 1976, Harvard Law School organized a Committe on Religion and Law, which took leadership in this area of study, initiating the research in “Law and Christianity” and expanding it into “Law and Religion.” Their research dealt with traditional thought in law, developing into comparative studies on law, religion and ethics. The author concludes that the law and Christianity are similar to each other as far as their concepts, forms and methodologies are concerned.departmental bulletin pape