No Other Gods: Answering the Call of Faith in the Practice of Law
I the Lord am your Godwho brought you out ofthe land of Egypt,the house of bondage:You shall have no other gods besides Me.Exodus 20: 2-3.It is one of the oldest stories around: A few or perhaps a dozen centuries ago, a person walking by a group of stone masons in a work crew at a half-finished cath...
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| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2003
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Journal of law and religion
Année: 2003, Volume: 18, Numéro: 2, Pages: 459-486 |
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| Résumé: | I the Lord am your Godwho brought you out ofthe land of Egypt,the house of bondage:You shall have no other gods besides Me.Exodus 20: 2-3.It is one of the oldest stories around: A few or perhaps a dozen centuries ago, a person walking by a group of stone masons in a work crew at a half-finished cathedral asked each one in turn, "What are you doing?" The first replied, "I'm cutting stone." The second said, "I'm earning the money I need to feed my family." The third answered, "I'm building a cathedral."If today our passerby were to make a similar inquiry of three lawyers entering a courthouse, the answers might be, from the first, "I am going to argue a case," and from the second, "I am working—billing some time—to feed my family." If the third happened to have been influenced by Professor Thomas L. Shaffer, however, his response might be a bit more arresting. For over the past fifteen years Shaffer has been articulating with increasing clarity his perception that a lawyer is a person "called out of the church, sent out from [a] particular people, to do something that is religiously important." |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1602271 |