A Biblical View of Law and Justice
Now in an expanded edition, David McIlroy presents an updated and thoroughly researched biblical theology of law and justice.
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David McIlroy is a practising barrister and head of Forum Chambers in London with over 30 years of experience in legal practice. He specialises in banking and financial services law, commercial law, and professional negligence. David serves on the editorial board of Law & Justice and is a professor of banking law at the University of Notre Dame (USA) in England and Queen Mary University of London. He is author of A Trinitarian Theology of Law (Wipf & Stock) and The End of the Law (Edward Elgar).
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In A Biblical View of Law and Justice, David McIlroy sets out a biblical theology of law and justice as they are expressed across Scripture.
The overall argument of the book is that law, and the human structures of political and legal authority, have a distinct but limited role to play in God's purposes in our world. Law protects the creation goods of human life, dignity, and liberty and creates space in which people are free to labour and love in meaningful ways. Participation in and building up those structures is a valid and important Christian calling.
David thus provides Christian lawyers, judges, politicians, and those in law enforcement a framework for thinking about their own calling and participation in God's work through their careers.
The overall argument of the book is that law, and the human structures of political and legal authority, have a distinct but limited role to play in God's purposes in our world. Law protects the creation goods of human life, dignity, and liberty and creates space in which people are free to labour and love in meaningful ways. Participation in and building up those structures is a valid and important Christian calling.
David thus provides Christian lawyers, judges, politicians, and those in law enforcement a framework for thinking about their own calling and participation in God's work through their careers.
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David McIlroy is a practising barrister and head of Forum Chambers in London with over 30 years of experience in legal practice. He specialises in banking and financial services law, commercial law, and professional negligence. David serves on the editorial board of Law & Justice and is a professor of banking law at the University of Notre Dame (USA) in England and Queen Mary University of London. He is author of A Trinitarian Theology of Law (Wipf & Stock) and The End of the Law (Edward Elgar).
The overall argument of the book is that law, and the human structures of political and legal authority, have a distinct but limited role to play in God's purposes in our world. Law protects the creation goods of human life, dignity, and liberty and creates space in which people are free to labour and love in meaningful ways. Participation in and building up those structures is a valid and important Christian calling.
David thus provides Christian lawyers, judges, politicians, and those in law enforcement a framework for thinking about their own calling and participation in God's work through their careers.