Religion in Legal Thought and Practice

ISBN: 9780521134484 出版年：2010 页码：645 Howard Lesnick Cambridge University Press

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.