Table of Contents
Introduction : Religious dimensions of law -- Why the history of Western law is not written -- The religious foundations of Western law -- Medieval English equity -- Law and belief in three revolutions -- The transformation of Western legal philosophy in Lutheran Germany -- The religious sources of general contract law : an historical perspective -- The interaction of law and religion in American constitutional history -- Religious freedom and the challenge of the modern state -- Some false premises of Max Weber's sociology of law -- Individualistic and communitarian theories of justice : an historical approach -- Law and religion in the development of a world order -- Toward an integrative jurisprudence : politics, morality, history -- Law and love -- Judaic-Christian versus pagan scholarship -- Law and history after the World Wars -- The crisis of legal education in America -- Is there such a thing--can there be such a thing--as a Christian law school? -- Atheism and Christianity in Soviet Russia -- The use of law to guide people to virtue : a comparison of Soviet and U.S. perspectives -- The weightier matters of the law : a response to Solzhenitsyn -- Christianity and democracy in Soviet Russia.