Church and Society
Resources Dedicated to Helping Students
Think Deeper About Law, Religion, and Society
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed.”
-Wendell Berry
Books
- Harold Berman, Faith and Order: The Reconciliation of Law and Religion (1993)
- Religious Liberty in Western Thought (Reynolds and Durham, Jr. eds, 1996)
- Oliver O’Donovan, The Desire of Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology (1999)
- David McIlroy, A Biblical View of Law and Justice: A Christian Perspective on Law (2007)
- James D. Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (2010)
- Nicholas Wolterstorff, Justice: Rights and Wrongs (2010)
- Larry Siedentop, Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism (2014)
- Timothy P. Jackson, Political Agape: Christian Love and Liberal Democracy (2015)
- Jonathan Leeman, Political Church: The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ’s Rule (2016)
- James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habits (2016)
- John Witte, Jr., Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (2016)
- Steven D. Smith, Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac (2018)
- Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (2018, reprint) [for help on reading Taylor, see James K.A. Smith, How (Not) To Be Secular (2014)]
- The Cambridge Companion to: Natural Law Jurisprudence (Duke and George eds, 2017)
- Luke Bretherton, Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy (2019)
- Robert L. Wilken, Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (2019)
- Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (2020)
- Reformed Public Theology: A Global Vision for Life in the World (Kaemingk ed., 2021)
Articles
- Roger Cramton, The Ordinary Religion of the Law School Classroom, J. of Legal Educ. (1977-78)
- Jeffrey Tuomala, Christ’s Atonement as the Model for Civil Justice, Liberty U. L. Rev. (1993)
- Craig A. Stern, Things Not Nice: An Essay on Civil Government, Regent U. L. Rev. (1997)
- Harold J. Berman, Religion and Liberty Under Law at the Founding of America, Regent U. L. Rev. (2007-08)
- John Witte, Jr. & Joel A. Nichols, “Come Now Let Us Reason Together”: Restoring Religious Freedom in America and Abroad, Notre Dame L. Rev. (2016).
Online
- Harold Berman, Law and Logos (1994)
- Thomas Neuberger, Christian Lawyers are Second Rate, The Rutherford Institute (2014)
- Eilene Zimmerman, The Lawyer, The Addict, New York Times (2017)
- Hannah LaGrand, Thoughtlessness, Sloth, and the Call to Think, Comment (2017)
For More
Michael P. Schutt, Law and the Biblical Tradition: Select Bibliography for Christian Law Students
Hilary R. Kastleman, Selected Bibliography: Religion and Lawyering
Natural Law: A Select Bibliography
