Redeeming Law – Christian Calling and the Legal Profession

Michael P. Schutt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2007
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-2599-8 (ISBN)

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Michael Schutt provides insight and guidance about being both a Christian and a lawyer. Some may be skeptical, but he discusses the ins and outs of both law school and legal practice and makes clear many of the practical connections between the daily demands of the profession and following Christ.

Being a Christian lawyer is possible, but not easy.
Law professor Michael Schutt believes that although there are significant obstacles, Christians belong in the legal profession and should regard it as a sacred calling. The Christian God is, after all, a God concerned with justice, both divine and human. However, the pathway beginning with law school and leading to the daily demands of practice doesn't provide much guidance for pursuing law as a Christian calling. Schutt offers this book as a vital resource for reconceiving the theoretical foundations of law and gives practical guidance for maintaining integrity within a challenging profession. A hopeful and practical book for law students and those serving in the legal profession.

Michael P. Schutt (J.D., University of Texas School of Law) is associate professor of law at Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, director of the Institute for Christian Legal Studies (ICLS), a cooperative ministry of the Christian Legal Society and Regent Law School, and also serves InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as the national coordinator of its Law School Ministry. Before joining the Regent law faculty, he practiced law in Fort Worth, Texas. He writes and travels for ICLS from his home in Mount Pleasant, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Lisa, and their three children.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. The Lost Lawyer

1. The Lost Lawyer

2. The American Law School Experience

3. Vocation and the Local Church

4. Thinking about Lawyering

Part II. Integrity

5. Integrity

6. Unity and the Integrated Lawyer

7. Community and Trinitarian Lawyering

8. Truth and the Integrated Lawyer

9. Integrity in Practice: Spiritual Disciplines

Part III. Integrity in Practice

10. Professional Identity, Integrity and Modernity

11. Lawyers' Vices--Lawyers' Virtues

12. Law and Truth

Conclusion

Appendix

Author and Subject Index

Scripture Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2009
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 237 mm
Gewicht	462 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
ISBN-10	0-8308-2599-1 / 0830825991
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-2599-8 / 9780830825998
Zustand	Neuware