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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Evangelicals and Catholics Together on Law: "The Lord of Heaven and Earth", redux

About a year ago, I announced that "The Lord of Heaven and Earth" -- a statement on law written and signed by two dozen Catholic and Evangelical law professors -- had been published in the Journal of Christian Legal Thought.  Here's a bit more on the project:

Over the last eight years, many of us met at several meetings to get to know one another, learn about our histories, and draft this document.  We had some amazing collaborators.  We met for a weekend at Notre Dame with historians John McGreevy and George Marsden.  They traced our communities’ history of conflict (mostly) and collaboration (more recently) on the subject of law.  Then we met at Pepperdine with philosopher/theologians Bradley Lewis, Dallas Willard, Joan Lockwood O’Donovan, and Oliver O’Donovan.  They helped us think through both our overlapping and conflicting ideas about law.  Then we met for major drafting sessions at Villanova and New Orleans.  The major drafting oars went to (volunteers) Patrick Brennan and Bill Brewbaker.  The attached document is the product of their work, with input from the broad range of people who attended our meetings and commented on earlier drafts.  And, at law year's Lumen Christi / Christian Law Professors Fellowship meeting at the AALS, we had a really productive panel at which scholars from a variety of faith traditions reacted to, and thoughtfully criticized, the statement.

Our plan was always to publish it also -- ideally, at the same time, but a year seems close enough! -- in Villanova's Journal of Catholic Social ThoughtWell, it's out now in that journal, too, and you can download it here:  Download ECT in JCST.

https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2014/06/evangelicals-and-catholics-together-on-law-the-lord-of-heaven-and-earth-redux.html

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