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Agape, justice, and law : how might Christian love shape law? /

This book addresses key contemporary legal debates from the perspective of the central Christian ethical category of love, agape.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cochran, Robert F., 1951- (Editor ), Calo, Zachary R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Colección:Law and Christianity.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; Introduction / Richard Mouw
  • Part I. Biblical Foundations. 1. Jesus, agape, and law / Robert F. Cochran, Jr ; 2. Love calls us to the things of this world: the Pauline tradition and 'the law of Christ' / Darryl Tippens
  • Part II. Modern Perspectives on Agape, Justice, and Law. 3. Agape, humility, and chaotic good: the challenge and risk of allowing agape a role in the law / Linda Ross Meyer ; 4. Javert and Jihad: why law cannot survive without love and vice versa / Timothy P. Jackson ; 5. Love, justice, and law / Nicholas Wolterstorff ; 6. Justice tempered by forbearance: why Christian love is an improper category to apply to civil law / David VanDrunen
  • Part III. What's Love Got to Do with it? Applications of Agape to Law. 7. Christian love and criminal punishment / Jeffrie G. Murphy ; 8. Be instructed, all you who judge the earth: law, justice, and love during the world / Charles Mathewes ; 9. Justice, love, and duties of care in tort law / Michael P. Moreland ; 10. The when and the where of love: subsidiarity as a framework for care of the elderly / Lucia Silecchia ; 11. Agape, grace, and immigration law: an Evangelical perspective / Jennifer Lee Koh ; 12. Law, agape, and the corporation / Lyman Johnson ; 13. Agape, gift, and intellectual property / Thomas C. Berg ; 14. That vast external realm: the limits of love and law in international politics / Alberto Coll ; Afterword: agape and reframing / James Boyd White.