Includes bibliographical references and index.

Old liberalism, new liberalism, and people of faith / Michael W. McConnell -- Liberal hegemony and religious resistance : an essay on legal theory / Stephen L. Carter -- Christianity and the roots of liberalism / Elizabeth Mensch -- The earthly peace of the liberal republic / H. Jefferson Powell -- A century of skepticism / Albert W. Alschuler -- Law and belief : critical legal studies and philosophy of the law idea / David S. Caudill -- What's love got to do with it? Race relations and the second great commandment / W. Burlette Carter -- Reinhold Niebuhr and critical race theory / Davison M. Douglas -- Hispanics, Catholicism, and the legal academy / José Roberto Juddrez, Jr. -- Independence or interdependence? A Christian response to liberal feminists / Teresa Stanton Collett -- Citizen-soldiers are like priests : feminism in law and theology / Leslie Griffin -- Law and economics : an apologia / Stephen M. Bainbridge -- A Catholic social teaching critique of law and economics / George E. Garvey -- Christian traditions, culture, and law / Robert F. Cochran, Jr. -- A Catholic view of law and justice / Angela C. Carmella -- Natural law / Gerard V. Bradley -- The Calvinist paradox of distrust and hope at the Constitutional Convention / Marci A. Hamilton -- A Calvinist perspective on the place of faith in legal scholarship / David S. Caudill -- The radical Reformation and the jurisprudence of forgiveness / Thomas L. Shaffer -- "Incendiaries of commonwealths : Baptists and law / Timothy L. Hall -- On liberty and life in Babylon : a pilgrim's pragmatic proposal / Richard F. Duncan -- A house divided? Anabaptist and Lutheran perspectives on the sword / David M. Smolin -- Making our home in the works of God : Lutherans on the civil use of the law / Marie A. Failinger and Patrick R. Keifert -- God's joust, God's justice : an illustration from the history of marriage law / John Witte, Jr. -- Human nature and criminal responsibility : the biblical view restored / Phillip E. Johnson -- Christianity and environmental law / John Copeland Nagle -- Can legal ethics be Christian? / Joseph G. Allegretti -- A historical perspective on Anglo-American contract law / Catherine M.A. McCauliff -- Tort law and intermediate communities : Calvinist and Catholic insights / Robert F. Cochran, Jr.