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Great Christian jurists in English history / edited by Mark Hill QC, Cardiff University, R.H. Helmholz, University of Chicago.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Law and Christianity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian lawyers--England--Biography.
- Christian lawyers.
- Law--England--Christian influences--History.
- Law.
- Christianity and law--History.
- Christianity and law.
- History.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the professional output of the individuals studied. Little has previously been written about the faith of the great judges who framed and developed the English common law over centuries, but this unique volume explores how their beliefs were reflected in their judicial functions. This comparative study, embracing ten centuries of English law, draws some remarkable conclusions as to how Christianity shaped the views of lawyers and judges. Adopting a long historical perspective, this volume also explores the lives of judges whose practice in or conception of law helped to shape the Church, its law or the articulation of its doctrine.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Lord Mackay of Clashfern
- Introduction / R H Helmholz and Mark Hill QC
- Henry of Bratton (alias Bbracton) / Nicholas Vincent
- William Lyndwood / R H Helmholz
- Christopher St German : religion, conscience and law / Ian Williams
- Sir Edward Coke : faith, law and the search for stability in reformation England / David Chan Smith
- Richard Hooker : priest and jurist / Norman Doe
- The integrative Christian jurisprudence of John Selden / Harold Berman and John Witte
- Matthew Hale as theologian and natural law theorist / David S Sytsma
- Lord Mansfield : the reasonableness of religion / Norman S Poser
- William Blackstone's Anglicanism / Wilf Prest
- Lord Kenyon : preaching from the bench / James Oldham
- Stephen Lushington / Stephen M Waddams
- Roundell Palmer, Earl of Selborne / Charlotte Smith
- F W Maitland : faithful dissenter / Russell Sandberg
- A passion for justice : Lord Denning, Christianity and the law / Andrew Phang.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781108125901
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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