God's Law and Our Law: The Kingdom of Heaven in American Law
Fellowship Meetings | Public Lectures | Religion & Public Life
Sat, Sep 6, 2008 7:00 pm
Dr. David Skeel, S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Graduate Christian Fellowship Roundtable
Big Red Barn
The talk will explore the influence of Christianity on American Law from the late nineteenth century to the present, starting with key early figures like William Jennings Bryan and Walter Rauschenbush, and continuing to the recent influence of the Religious Right. The talk will focus in particular on Christians' shifting interpretations of the implications of the Sermon on the Mount, and will conclude with my own theory of the appropriate relationship between God's law and the secular law.