{"id":451,"date":"2006-10-18T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T00:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2006-10-18T16:07:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T00:07:54","slug":"through-the-looking-glass-feminists-for-life-christian-legal-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2006\/10\/18\/through-the-looking-glass-feminists-for-life-christian-legal-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the Looking Glass &#8212; Feminists for Life; Christian Legal Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the Looking Glass today:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro-Woman, Pro-Life:<\/strong>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministsforlife.org\/\">Feminists for Life<\/a>, an organization devoted to the proposition that pro-life is a pro-woman stance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christian Legal Scholarship?<\/strong>  Penn Law Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.upenn.edu\/cf\/faculty\/dskeel\/\">David Skeel&#8217;s<\/a> recent paper <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=929850\">The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship<\/a> is a must-read if you are interested in how Christian faith relates to law and society.  Skeel explains why there is a a dearth of Christian legal scholarship (partly the influence of legal positivism, partly the evangelical \/ fundamentalist withdrawal from society prior to the 1970&#8217;s), and argues for a Christian theory of law rooted in Kuyper&#8217;s notion of sphere sovereignty.   In another paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=859167\">Christianity and the (Modest) Rule of Law<\/a>, Skeel and Harvard Law professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/faculty\/directory\/facdir.php?id=95\">William Stuntz<\/a> contrast the &#8220;rule of law&#8221; in a civil democracy with the concept of God&#8217;s law as expressed in scripture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the Looking Glass today: Pro-Woman, Pro-Life: Feminists for Life, an organization devoted to the proposition that pro-life is a pro-woman stance. Christian Legal Scholarship? Penn Law Professor David Skeel&#8217;s recent paper The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship is a must-read if you are interested in how Christian faith relates to law and society. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-policy","category-looking-glass"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-7h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}