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These intellectual biographies illustrate the rich and enduring interactions between Christianity and law by examining the contributions that twenty Spanish jurists have made over the centuries to legal ideals, institutions, and practice, and how their Christian faith informed their thinking about the law.

The global persecution of Christians is an urgent human rights issue, yet remains underreported in the mainstream media and by human rights organizations. In this volume a group of well-respected scholars investigates contemporary persecutions of Christians in twenty-four nations and how Christians have responded to these actions.

Analyzing Christian influences on Western family law over the past two millennia, this volume explores marriage and divorce, women's and children's rights, marital property and inheritance, and human sexuality. In twenty-five lively and accessible chapters, readers are exposed to the enduring and evolving Christian norms and teachings on family life.

Analyzing Christian influences on Western family law over the past two millennia, this volume explores marriage and divorce, women's and children's rights, marital property and inheritance, and human sexuality. In twenty-five lively and accessible chapters, readers are exposed to the enduring and evolving Christian norms and teachings on family life.

Volume 2 of Christianity and Freedom examines the contributions of Christian minorities to societies across the globe in the midst of pressure and violent persecution. Including original field research, it offers a timely perspective on hot-button issues of social justice and religious liberty.

In Volume 1 of Christianity and Freedom, leading historians uncover the unappreciated role of Christianity in the development of civic, economic, and political freedoms from antiquity through today. Drawing from political science and sociology, it will be a standard reference work for historians, religion scholars, and students.

This book is designed for those studying and teaching law or theology, those who practice and study ecumenism, those involved in the practice of church law, and those studying and teaching law or theology to understand how different Christian traditions have historically approached natural law.

In Volume 1 of Christianity and Freedom, leading historians uncover the unappreciated role of Christianity in the development of civic, economic, and political freedoms from antiquity through today. Drawing from political science and sociology, it will be a standard reference work for historians, religion scholars, and students.

This book will be of interest to students, teachers, and scholars in a variety of fields, including law, theology and religious studies, political science, philosophy, and history. The essays, by leading scholars from these fields, address classic theological issues as well as contemporary debates in law and politics.

The influence of Christianity on Western legal thought is of interest to a broad audience of scholars and students. This authoritative work will be a welcome reference, providing a unique study of the pervasive influence of Christianity in jurisprudence and legal scholarship in both common law and civil law jurisdictions.

Volume 2 of Christianity and Freedom examines the contributions of Christian minorities to societies across the globe in the midst of pressure and violent persecution. Including original field research, it offers a timely perspective on hot-button issues of social justice and religious liberty.

This book discusses the speeches in which the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reflected most explicitly on law, justice, democracy, and reason, along with the commentary from distinguished legal scholars. Collectively, these addresses formulate a series of core ideas for a 'public teaching' on the topic of justice and law.