Engaging Robert Rodes
I am a lawyer turned theologian turned goat and hog farmer who finds himself attempting to make sense of a path from social ascent to intentional social descent. An economics major who studied just enough philosophy at a Christian college to think he wanted to continue that work while in law school,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2007
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2007, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 433-443 |
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| Summary: | I am a lawyer turned theologian turned goat and hog farmer who finds himself attempting to make sense of a path from social ascent to intentional social descent. An economics major who studied just enough philosophy at a Christian college to think he wanted to continue that work while in law school, I found my life captured by the life and work of Stanley Hauerwas. It has all been all downhill from there. As a good friend of mine from law school days who has followed a similar descending path recently suggested, "Stanley Hauerwas ruined my legal career." Add in required readings by John Howard Yoder and Wendell Berry during graduate school, and you find yourself on a path toward political and economic radicalism, farming, and just maybe, a church for which it is worth living and dying.But, of course, the voices of Hauerwas and Yoder were not crystallized in isolation. They were forged in the midst of conversation with good colleagues. In this collection of essays we celebrate the life and work of Robert Rodes, a colleague of both Yoder and Hauerwas at Notre Dame in the 1980s. I have learned a tremendous amount from Rodes's historical work on the shape of English law during the period of the Reformation. But in engaging Rodes here, I focus on his constructive work on the role of the law in liberation. What I offer is a set of questions and potential alternatives in response to that work, largely learned from Hauerwas and Yoder. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0748081400003982 |