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The Weightier matters of the law : essays on law and religion ; a tribute to Harold J. Berman
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The Weightier matters of the law : essays on law and religion ; a tribute to Harold J. Berman

Author: John Witte; Frank S Alexander; Harold J Berman
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, ©1988.
Series: AAR studies in religion, no. 51.
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Named Person: Harold J Berman; Harold Joseph Berman
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Witte; Frank S Alexander; Harold J Berman
ISBN: 1555401791 9781555401795
OCLC Number: 16982189
Description: xxii, 350 p. : port. ; 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Historical interactions of law and religion. Villey, Ockham and the origin of individual rights / Brian Tierney --
Institutional history from archival history: the court of Canterbury rolls / Charles Donahue, Jr. --
The transformation of marriage law in the Lutheran Reformation / John Witte, Jr. --
Winstanley, seventeenth century radical: from the mystery of God to the law of freedom / Douglas E. Sturm --
Religion, law, and revolution in the shaping of Harvard College, 1636-1708 / George Huntston Williams --
Law and peace in prerevolutionary Russia: the case of V.F. Malinovskii --
pt. 2. Religious perspectives on law. Conceptions of natural law, from Troeltsch to Berman / James Luther Adams --
Religion and the criminal law: types and contexts of interaction / W. Cole Durham, Jr. --
Casting the priests out of the temple: John Austin and the relation between law and religion / John V. Orth --
Beyond positivism: a theological perspective / Frank S. Alexander --
The role of conscience in judicial decisio-making / Lois G. Forer --
Biblical kingdom and American law / Milner S. Ball --
The tension between law in America and the religious tradition / Thomas Shaffer.
Series Title: AAR studies in religion, no. 51.
Responsibility: edited by John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander.

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