Religion and Procedure
When I began telling my colleagues at Notre Dame that I had been invited to prepare a paper on religion and procedure, some of them said "How interesting," and looked vague. Others, more forthright, came straight out and asked what on earth I was going to say. The reaction is understandabl...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1986
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 1986, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 179-188 |
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| Summary: | When I began telling my colleagues at Notre Dame that I had been invited to prepare a paper on religion and procedure, some of them said "How interesting," and looked vague. Others, more forthright, came straight out and asked what on earth I was going to say. The reaction is understandable. Since God made everything, there is nothing that cannot be related to religion if you work at it, but procedure seems to be harder going than most things. It is all very well to talk about God ruling the world and the state exercising authority on His behalf. But God does not seem to have any procedure. It is fairly easy, if you go in for analogies of that kind, to think of God as a lawgiver, even as a judge. But to think of Him as a sheriff or a process server stretches most people's imaginations farther than they will comfortably stretch. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051227 |