Great Christian jurists in the low countries /

"The present volume wants to reveal the impact of Christianity on the development of law and societal policies in the Low Countries over a period of ten centuries. It starts with the seminal contribution to the medieval ius commune by the canonist Alger de Liège (ca. 1060-1132) at the end of the eleventh century and ends with Josse Mertens de Wilmars's (1912-2002) protagonist role as a judge in the creation of a European ius commune in the second half of the twentieth century. The impact of Christianity on thinking and making the law is shown through essays on twenty Christian legal scholars and legal practitioners from the Low Countries. Historically speaking, the Low Countries cover a region which, today, is more or less corresponding to Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and parts of Northern France. Through these biographies from jurists from the Southern and Northern Netherlands, developments that are more general in nature can be recognised and established, about the changing roles of Christianity and law in Western societies more general. As a matter of fact, the gradual "secularization" of legal culture in the Low Countries is used as a framework to describe the general evolution of the impact of Christianity on the lives and writings of the twenty selected jurists"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : Great Christian jurists in the low countries / Wim Decock and Janwillem Oosterhuis -- Alger of Liège / Emmanuël Falzone -- Arnoldus Gheyloven / Bram Van Hofstraeten -- Boëtius Epo / Hylkje de Jong -- Leonardus Lessius / Toon Van Houdt -- Franciscus Zypaeus / Wouter Druwé -- Hugo Grotius / Janwillem Oosterhuis -- Paulus Voet (1619-1667) - A Christian jurist during the Dutch golden age / Johannes van Kralingen -- Ulrik Huber / Atsuko Fukuoka -- Zeger-Bernard van Espen / Jan Hallebeek -- Dionysius van der Keesse (1738-1816). The defiance of a Christian conservative / E. Koops -- Pieter Paulus (1753-1796) / Matthijs de Blois -- Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer / Jan Willem Sap -- Edouard Ducpétiaux - A Christian, but also a jurist? / Frank Judo -- Charles Périn / Fred Stevens -- Léon de Lantsheere (1862-1912) / Peter Heyrman -- Paul Scholten / Timo Slootweg -- Willem Duynstee / Corjo Jansen -- Jules Storme (1887-1955), the Catholic jurist and the growing pains of Christian democracy in Belgium / Dirk Heirbaut -- Herman Dooyeweerd / Bas Hengstmengel -- Josse Mertens de Wilmars (1912-2002) / Laurent Waelkens."The present volume wants to reveal the impact of Christianity on the development of law and societal policies in the Low Countries over a period of ten centuries. It starts with the seminal contribution to the medieval ius commune by the canonist Alger de Liège (ca. 1060-1132) at the end of the eleventh century and ends with Josse Mertens de Wilmars's (1912-2002) protagonist role as a judge in the creation of a European ius commune in the second half of the twentieth century. The impact of Christianity on thinking and making the law is shown through essays on twenty Christian legal scholars and legal practitioners from the Low Countries. Historically speaking, the Low Countries cover a region which, today, is more or less corresponding to Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and parts of Northern France. Through these biographies from jurists from the Southern and Northern Netherlands, developments that are more general in nature can be recognised and established, about the changing roles of Christianity and law in Western societies more general. As a matter of fact, the gradual "secularization" of legal culture in the Low Countries is used as a framework to describe the general evolution of the impact of Christianity on the lives and writings of the twenty selected jurists"-