Religion in Legal Thought and Practice (Paperback)

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.