Whenever I try to incorporate Christian thought into the course on family law I teach at a Catholic law school, I meet two kinds of resistance from my students. First, many will dismiss religious tradition as irrelevant to our legal regime; they presume that the separation of church and state means that all lessons originating in such traditions are out of bounds. Second, my (...)
December 21, 2007
Books
The Knot
Equality and the FamilyA Fundamental, Practical Theology of Children, Mothers, and Fathers in Modern Societies Don S. BrowningEerdmans, $34, 428 pp.
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