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Early New England
A Covenanted Society
Häftad, 2005
472 kr
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The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders.Unmatched in the breadth of …
Suing for America's Soul
John Whitehead, the Rutherford Institute, and Conservative Christians in the Courts
Häftad, 2007
314 kr
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When John W. Whitehead founded The Rutherford Institute as a Christian legal advocacy group in 1982, he was interested primarily in the First Amendment's religion clause, serving clients only when religious freedom was at stake. By the mid-1990s, however, religious rights were but one subset of all …
God's Joust, God's Justice
Law and Religion in Western Tradition
Häftad, 2006
498 kr
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There are three things that people will die for -- their faith, their freedom, and their family. This volume focuses on all three, including the interactions among them, in the Western tradition and today. Retrieving and reconstructing a wealth of material from the earliest Hebrew and Greek texts …
Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics
Häftad, 2006
472 kr
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Is knowledge of right and wrong written on the human heart? Do people know God from the world around them? Does natural knowledge contribute to Christian doctrine? While these questions of natural theology and natural law have historically been part of theological reflection, the radical reliance …
Lex Charitatis
A Juristic Disquisition on Law in the Theology of Martin Luther
Av J. Heckel
Häftad, 2010
578 kr
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This substantial work by one of Europe's most respected twentieth-century legal minds unpacks Luther's doctrine of law, showing how it derived from his central theological concern, justification by faith. "When Johannes Heckel's Lex Charitatis appeared more than half a century ago, it brought new …
Religious Liberty
Overviews and History
Häftad, 2010
721 kr
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The Collected Works on Religious Liberty comprehensively collects the scholarship, advocacy, and explanatory writings of leading scholar and lawyer Douglas Laycock, illuminating every major religious liberty issue from both theoretical and practical perspectives. / This first volume gives the big …
Religious Liberty
The Free Exercise Clause
Häftad, 2011
774 kr
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For more than thirty years, Douglas Laycock has been studying, defending, and writing about religious liberty. In this second volume of the comprehensive collection of his writings on the subject, he has compiled articles, amicus briefs, and actual court documents relating to regulatory exemptions …
Ministers of the Law
A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority
Av Jean Porter
Häftad, 2010
385 kr
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In Ministers of the Law Jean Porter articulates a theory of legal authority derived from the natural law tradition. As she points out, the legal authority of most traditions rests on their own internal structures, independent of extralegal considerations -- legal houses built on sand, as it were. …
Secular Government, Religious People
Av Ira C. Lupu, Robert W. Tuttle
Häftad, 2014
357 kr
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In this book Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle break through the unproductive American debate over competing religious rights. They present an original theory that makes the secular character of the American government, rather than a set of individual rights, the centerpiece of religious liberty in the …
Divine Covenants and Moral Order
A Biblical Theology of Natural Law
Häftad, 2014
525 kr
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This book addresses the old question of natural law in its contemporary context. David VanDrunen draws on both his Reformed theological heritage and the broader Christian natural law tradition to develop a constructive theology of natural law through a thorough study of Scripture. The biblical …
Political Agape
Christian Love and Liberal Democracy
Häftad, 2015
472 kr
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What is the place of Christian love in a pluralistic society dedicated to "liberty and justice for all"? What would it mean to take both Jesus Christ and Abraham Lincoln seriously and attempt to translate love of God and neighbor into every quarter of life, including law and politics? Timothy …
Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty
Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology
Häftad, 2017
436 kr
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How do Christians determine when to obey God even if that means disobeying other people? In this book W. Bradford Littlejohn addresses that question as he unpacks the magisterial political-theological work of Richard Hooker, a leading figure in the sixteenth-century English Reformation. Littlejohn …
The Earth Is the Lords
A Natural Law Theory of Property
Häftad, 2025
472 kr
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What does the Christian tradition have to say about property and ownership? The Earth Is the Lords offers compelling answers to this question. In this timely and thought-provoking book, author Liam de los Reyes presents a counterpoint from within the Christian tradition to both Lockean and …
