More on "Christian Jurisprudence"

Michael asks me to say more about the "case against the possibility of jurisprudence being Christian and the possibility that Christianity contains a jurisprudence."  I'm afraid I am reluctant to say much more, if only to avoid being unfair to the "case" by getting it wrong.  That said, my sense is that the case is built on concerns about the radical separateness of Christian agape from the workings and structure of the "law", the latter being, in the end, the exercise of power by the state.  (The "case" sounds, in other words, in the work of people like Stanley Hauerwas).  But see, e.g., Thomas Shaffer, "The Christian Jurisprudence of Robert E. Rodes, Jr.," 73 Notre Dame Law Review 737 (1998).  I will see if I can get Milner Ball to enlighten me on the matter.

Rick