Fort, Timothy L.

Law and religion / Timothy L. Fort. - Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1987 - viii, 145 p. ; 22 cm.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1

Part i
Connecting law and religion
1. the mutual Dependence Harold Berman and
The interaction of law and Religion (1974)
2. The Purist Approach
Jacques Ellul and
The Theological Foundation of Law (1960)
3. The connection as a Way of Life Sacred and Secular Ethics

Part ii
A missing Link in American legal History
4. Moving into the Historical Context
5. The Theory of the Economic Historians
William Nelson and
Americanization of the common law (1975)
Lawrence Friedman and a History of American law (1973)
J. Willard Hurst and law and the conditions of freedom (1956)
Morton Horwitz and
the Transformation of American Law (1977)
Richard Posner and Economic Analysis of law (1972)
Stephen Presser and Law and American History (1980)
Conclusion

Part iii
Jurisprudence of Faith
Using Theology to interpret jurisprudence
6. Theology in Connecticut Law
7. Tapping Reeve
8. Zephaniah Swift


Part iv
The Modern Debate
9. jerry Farwell and the Fundamentalists
10. Mario Cuomo and the moderate Traditionalists
11. Ethics in Contemporary America

Includes index


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Religion and law--United States.
Religion and state --United States.
United States --Religion.

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