Christianity and law : an introduction
Christianity and law : an introduction
- 자료유형
- 단행본 서양서
- 최종처리일시
- 20160510140148
- ISBN
- 9780521874625 (hbk) : \30,000
- ISBN
- 0521874629 (hbk)
- ISBN
- 9780521697491 (pbk.)
- ISBN
- 0521697492 (pbk.)
- DDC
- 261.8-22
- 청구기호
- 261.8 W828c
- 저자명
- Witte, John
- 서명/저자
- Christianity and law : an introduction / edited by John Witte, Jr., Frank S. Alexander
- 발행사항
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008
- 형태사항
- xvi, 343 p : ill. ; 24 cm
- 서지주기
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 일반주제명
- Christianity and law
- 일반주제명
- Christian sociology
- 기타저자
- Alexander, Frank S.
- 책소개
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What impact has Christianity had on the law from its beginnings to the present day? This introduction explores the main legal teachings of Western Christianity, set out in the texts and traditions of scripture and theology, philosophy and jurisprudence. It takes up the weightier matters of the law that Christianity has profoundly shaped - justice and mercy, rule and equity, discipline and love - as well as more technical topics of canon law, natural law, and state law. Some of these legal creations were wholly original to Christianity. Others were converted from Jewish and classical traditions. Still others were reformed by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophies. But whether original or reformed, these Christian teachings on law, politics and society have made and can continue to make fundamental contributions to modern law in the West and beyond.