Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia

Kjell Å Modéer is Professor Emeritus of Legal History at Lund University, Sweden. Helle Vogt holds the Chair in Legal History at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Foreword by John Witte, Jr.; Introduction: Kjell Å Modéer Helle Vogt; The Middle Ages; Introduction: Bertil Nilsson Helle Vogt; Per Andersen Helle Vogt: Archbishops Absalon and Anders Sunesen: Legal reforms in around 1200 in Denmark; Bertil Nilsson Stina Sundmark: Anders Andersson And, Brynolf Algotsson Laurentius of Vaksala, Swedish church law around 1300; Reformation and Early Modern Times; Introduction: Mia Korpiola Heikki Pihlajamäki; Morten Kjær Mattias Skat Sommer: Johannes Bugenhagen: The architect of the Danish Reformation; Heikki Pihlajamäki: Olaus Petri: The architect of the Swedish Reformation; Mia Korpiola: Archbishop Laurentius Petri: The Respected Authority of the Swedish Reformation; Morten Kjær and Mattias Skat Sommer: The Christian jurisprudence of Niels Hemmingsen; The Enlightenment – Secular Law in Christian Societies; Introduction: Søren Koch and Kristian Mejrup; Søren Koch: Ludvig Holberg: Natural Law and the Struggle with Pietism in Eighteenth-Century Denmark-Norway: Ludvig Holberg (1684–1751); Kristian Mejrup: Andreas Hojer: the standard-bearer of Danish-Norwegian Pietism; National Romanticism and Constitutionalism; Introduction: Anders Jarlert Kjell Å Modéer; Lisbet Christoffersen and Niels Henrik Gregersen: Shaping the Danish People’s Church in the Context of Freedom of Religion. A.S. Ørsted (1778–1860) and N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783–1872); Kjell Å Modéer: Christian Legal Historian and Intermediary of Henric Schartau’s Religious Heritage: Carl Johan Schlyter 1795 – 1888; Alexander Maurits: The Theological Battle for Freedom of Religion in Sweden: the Case of Henrik Reuterdahl and Johan Henrik Thomander; Jussi Sallila: Karl Gustav Ehrström: Humanity, the Christian Spirit, and Criminal Law in Finland in the nineteenth century; Modernity: Secularism and Positivism/Legal Realism; Introduction: Anders Jarlert Kjell Å Modéer; Egil Morland and Torgeir Landro, Absalon Taranger: Legal history and church politic in Norway around 1900; Anders Jarlert: Swedish Modernity in Transition within Law and Theology: Halvar G F Sundberg and Gustaf Aulén; Egil Morland: Church Leader in Times of Trouble: Eivind Josef Berggrav (1884 - 1959); Kjell Å Modéer, Frede Castberg 1893 – 1977: A Counterpoint in Modern Nordic Legal Culture; Kjell Å Modéer: A Late-Modern Catalyst in Swedish Ecclesiastical Law: Göran Göransson (1925–1998);