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Monday, November 2, 2009

Cultivating a Franciscan sensibility among lawyers

Even in his first post, Bob Hockett has contributed significantly to the Catholic legal theory project. There is a lot to explore along the lines of his Franciscan worldview and its implications for our understanding of lawyers and the work they do.  I write only to note my admiration for his progression from Augustinian to Thomist to Franciscan.  More often, I think, we start out as Franciscans and move in an Augustinian direction -- filled with wonder and awe for the particulars of creation when we're young, then gradually overtaken by the reality of sin, retreating into a defensive, or at least wary, posture toward creation.  I know I could benefit from having a few more daily "Thou" encounters with my surroundings.  Maintaining a sense of the sacred in our everyday encounters, despite our familiarity with the sinfulness that is never far from the surface of those encounters, seems to be an especially pressing challenge for lawyers.  Can legal educators play a role in helping lawyers meet this challenge? 

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