God has no use for procedural rules since He knows the full truth and is able to exercise absolute justice simultaneously alongside complete mercy. This paper discusses the religious significance of legal rules of procedure in light of this truth. It finds that since we, unlike God, are inherently fallible, we are forced to implement procedures in the legal pursuit of our goals of truth, justice, and mercy. These procedures remain imperfect in implementing these goals, as compromises must often be made between competing values such as mercy on one hand and justice on the other. Nevertheless, though legal procedure is imperfect, it is meant to achieve these goals as best we can. It is important for us to avoid treating procedure in such a wa...
Reprinted with permission from The Infinite Atonement (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), 299-321
Permission granted by Bruce Frohen.Our imprudence is related to our confusion about the nature of l...
Proponents of the rule of law argue about whether that ideal should be conceived formalistically or ...
God has no use for procedural rules since He knows the full truth and is able to exercise absolute j...
Procedure aspires to lofty goals: fairness, efficiency, and speedy adjudication, or so says Rule 1. ...
In a democracy, process is king to a very large extent, and this is especially so in the judicial br...
Conservative Christians are often accused, justifiably, of trying to impose their moral views on the...
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Reprinted with permission from The Infinite Atonement (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), 299-321
Permission granted by Bruce Frohen.Our imprudence is related to our confusion about the nature of l...
Proponents of the rule of law argue about whether that ideal should be conceived formalistically or ...
God has no use for procedural rules since He knows the full truth and is able to exercise absolute j...
Procedure aspires to lofty goals: fairness, efficiency, and speedy adjudication, or so says Rule 1. ...
In a democracy, process is king to a very large extent, and this is especially so in the judicial br...
Conservative Christians are often accused, justifiably, of trying to impose their moral views on the...
When one chooses to tolerate suffering, waiting calmly without reacting emotively or physically, he ...
This article begins in part I, Introduction, with two observations. First, the function of procedur...
My subject implies a dichotomy which constitutes one of the law\u27s perpetual paradoxes, seemingly ...
The purpose of this research is to offer an analysis of the major conceptual and ethical problems fa...
Modern American society is pervasively regulated. It is also religiously diverse to a degree that is...
This Article focuses on one extreme example of the law’s response to unreasonable revelations that i...
In this Essay, I argue that the Biblical portrayal of God as a person, and, in particular, as a judg...
How should the government res pond if people refuse standard medical treatment? What should the gove...
Reprinted with permission from The Infinite Atonement (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), 299-321
Permission granted by Bruce Frohen.Our imprudence is related to our confusion about the nature of l...
Proponents of the rule of law argue about whether that ideal should be conceived formalistically or ...