Religion in Legal Thought and Practice
Autor Howard Lesnicken Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 2010
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780521134484
ISBN-10: 052113448X
Pagini: 644
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 33 mm
Greutate: 1.16 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 052113448X
Pagini: 644
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 33 mm
Greutate: 1.16 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Part I. Introduction: 1. Some opening prompts; 2. Religion and the life of a lawyer; Part II. Moral Obligation and Religious Belief: 3. What is the relation between the moral dimension of obligation and religious belief?; 4. Does religious belief necessarily have moral content? Does religious belief have any necessary moral content?; 5. What are the bases of resistance to religiously grounded morality?; 6. Concepts of God, scripture, and revelation: the meanings of 'divine inspiration'; 7. Modes of religiously grounded moral discernment; Part III. Religion and Some Contemporary Moral Controversies: 8. Economic justice; 9. Bioethical questions; 10. Abortion; 11. Homosexual sex; Part IV. The Interaction Between Religion and the Secular Law: 12. 'Render unto Caesar': religion and (dis)obedience to law; 13. Religiously grounded morality and the reach of public law; 14. Capital punishment; 15. War; Part V. Responding to Religious Diversity: 16. Holding the truth, lightly: religion, truth, and pluralism; 17. Jewish Christian understanding: transcending the legacy of history; Part VI. Religiously Grounded Moral Decision-Making in Professional Life: 18. Answering the call of faith in the practice of law.
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Descriere
This book examines moral issues in public and private life from a religious but not devotional perspective.