Theologians and Contract Law
Title | Theologians and Contract Law PDF eBook |
Author | Wim Decock |
Publisher | Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Pages | 744 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004232842 |
In "Theologians and Contract Law," Wim Decock offers an account of the moral roots of modern contract law. He explains why theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries built a systematic contract law around the principles of freedom and fairness.
Theologians and Contract Law
Title | Theologians and Contract Law PDF eBook |
Author | Wim Decock |
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Release | 2011 |
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Christianity and Private Law
Title | Christianity and Private Law PDF eBook |
Author | Robert F. Cochran, Jr |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2020-11-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000225054 |
This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in private law theory, and this book contributes to that discussion by drawing on the historical, theological, and philosophical resources of the Christian tradition. The book begins with an introduction from the editors that lays out the understanding of "private law" and what distinguishes private law topics from other fields of law. This section includes two survey chapters on natural law and biblical sources. The remaining sections of the book move sequentially through the fields of property, contracts, and torts. Several chapters focus on historical sources and show the ways in which the evolution of legal doctrine in areas of private law has been heavily influenced by Christian thinkers. Other chapters draw out more contemporary and public policy-related implications for private law. While this book is focused on the relationship of Christianity to private law, it will be of broad interest to those who might not share that faith perspective. In particular, legal historians and philosophers of law will find much of interest in the original scholarship in this volume. The book will be attractive to teachers of law, political science, and theology. It will be of special interest to the many law faculty in property, contracts, and torts, as it provides a set of often overlooked historical and theoretical perspectives on these fields.
Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720)
Title | Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720) PDF eBook |
Author | Paolo Astorri |
Publisher | Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh |
Pages | 657 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Contracts |
ISBN | 9783506701503 |
It is clear that the Lutheran Reformation greatly contributed to changes in theological and legal ideas - but what was the extent of its impact on the field of contract law? Legal historians have extensively studied the contract doctrines developed by Roman Catholic theologians and canonists; however, they have largely neglected Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon, Johann Aepinus, Martin Chemnitz, Friedrich Balduin and many other reformers. This book focuses on those neglected voices of the Reformation, exploring their role in the history of contract law. These men mapped out general principles to counter commercial fraud and dictated norms to regulate standard economic transactions. The most learned jurists, such as Matthias Coler, Peter Heige, Benedict Carpzov, and Samuel Stryk, among others, studied these theological teachings and implemented them in legal tenets. Theologians and jurists thus cooperated in resolving contract law problems, especially those concerning interest and usury.
From Sacrament to Contract
Title | From Sacrament to Contract PDF eBook |
Author | John Witte |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780664255435 |
Analyzes the interplay between Christian theological norms and Western legal principles concerning marriage, examining the theology and law of marriage in the Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, and Enlightenment traditions.
Theologians and Contract Law
Title | Theologians and Contract Law PDF eBook |
Author | Wim Decock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2011 |
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From Sacrament to Contract, Second Edition
Title | From Sacrament to Contract, Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | John Witte Jr. |
Publisher | Presbyterian Publishing Corp |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2012-01-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1611641926 |
This newly revised and enlarged edition of John Witte's authoritative historical study explores the interplay of law, theology, and marriage in the Western tradition. Witte uncovers the core beliefs that formed the theological genetic code of Western marriage and family law. He explores the systematic models of marriage developed by Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans, and Enlightenment thinkers, and the transformative influence of each model on Western marriage law. In addition, he traces the millennium-long reduction of marriage from a complex spiritual, social, contractual, and natural institution into a simple private contract with freedom of entrance, exercise, and exit for husband and wife alike. This second edition updates and expands each chapter and the bibliography. It also includes three new chapters on classical, biblical, and patristic sources.