Add to ORKGThis article is an invited response to James Davison Hunter’s much-discussed book To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010). Hunter, a sociologist at UVA and a believing Protestant, claims that law’s capacity to contribute to social change is “mostly illusory” and that Christians, therefore, should practice “faithful presence” in the public square rather than seek to influence law directly. My response is that it is, in fact, law’s stunning ability to alter and limit available choices that makes it an object of deservedly fierce contest. The wild protest over the recent enactment of a “Christianized” constitution in Hungary is illustrative. Hunter worrie...
In a provocative essay, philosopher Jeffrie Murphy asks: \u27what would law be like if we organized ...
Reviewed Title: Agape, Justice, and Law: How Might Christian Love Shape Law edited by Robert F. Coch...
This article is an invited response to Professor Lee Strang’s article Originalism and the Aristoteli...
This article is an invited response to James Davison Hunter’s much-discussed book To Change the Worl...
This paper considers how James Hunter’s arguments, presented both in his address and his book To Cha...
Few would dispute that law and legal procedures lie at the core of American self-identity and are wo...
The thesis of this article is that, for the Rule of Law to be maintained in a modern technological s...
Conservative Christians are often accused, justifiably, of trying to impose their moral views on the...
Other contributors to this symposium see liberalism \u27 as the problem and God as the solution.\...
Few would dispute that law and legal procedures lie at the core of American self-identity and are wo...
(Excerpt) In his treatment of contemporary legal issues and, more deeply, his analysis of the manner...
In reflecting on James Davison Hunter’s thesis To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibilit...
While the law may assume rationality, it\u27s a fair question whether people are really all that rat...
Father Robert Drinan, long a leading advocate of human rights, has had a distinguished career servin...
A few years ago I published a book, The Nature of Law, which was activated primarily by three long h...
In a provocative essay, philosopher Jeffrie Murphy asks: \u27what would law be like if we organized ...
Reviewed Title: Agape, Justice, and Law: How Might Christian Love Shape Law edited by Robert F. Coch...
This article is an invited response to Professor Lee Strang’s article Originalism and the Aristoteli...
This article is an invited response to James Davison Hunter’s much-discussed book To Change the Worl...
This paper considers how James Hunter’s arguments, presented both in his address and his book To Cha...
Few would dispute that law and legal procedures lie at the core of American self-identity and are wo...
The thesis of this article is that, for the Rule of Law to be maintained in a modern technological s...
Conservative Christians are often accused, justifiably, of trying to impose their moral views on the...
Other contributors to this symposium see liberalism \u27 as the problem and God as the solution.\...
Few would dispute that law and legal procedures lie at the core of American self-identity and are wo...
(Excerpt) In his treatment of contemporary legal issues and, more deeply, his analysis of the manner...
In reflecting on James Davison Hunter’s thesis To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibilit...
While the law may assume rationality, it\u27s a fair question whether people are really all that rat...
Father Robert Drinan, long a leading advocate of human rights, has had a distinguished career servin...
A few years ago I published a book, The Nature of Law, which was activated primarily by three long h...
In a provocative essay, philosopher Jeffrie Murphy asks: \u27what would law be like if we organized ...
Reviewed Title: Agape, Justice, and Law: How Might Christian Love Shape Law edited by Robert F. Coch...
This article is an invited response to Professor Lee Strang’s article Originalism and the Aristoteli...