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Book SynopsisFeatures legal scholars from sixteen different religious traditions who contend that religious discourse has an important function in the making, practice, and adjudication of American law, not least because our laws rest upon a framework of religious values. This book also includes topics such as abortion, gay rights, euthanasia, and free speech.
Trade ReviewA tremendous addition to the literature bounded by the topics of ethics, religion, public policy, and law. . . . A remarkable contribution in its conception and execution. -- Ellen S. Pryor,Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University
A truly remarkable collection of firstrate essays by a variety of scholars, one more illuminating than the other. -- Amitai Etzioni,author of Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy
This timely book urges readers to look at the courthouse & from a faith context…. [A]n exciting picture of the relationship between pluralistic faiths and law. * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Robert F. Cochran, Jr.Part I The Augustinian Framework: The City of God and the City of Man 1 Augustine Part II Reformation Faiths 2 Calvinists 3 Lutherans 4 Anabaptists 5 Baptists 6 Evangelicals Part III Home-Grown American Faiths 7 African-American Churches 8 Churches of Christ 9 Latter-Day Saints Part IV Catholicism 10 Catholic Natural Law 11 Catholic Social Thought Part V Judaism12 Orthodox Jews 13 Reform Jews Part VI New Immigrant Faiths 14 Hindus 15 Buddhists 16 Muslims Contributors Index
