CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE LIMITS OF THE LAW
Edited by Paul Beaumont
Paternoster Press. 149 pages
ISBN 1 84227 156 3
This book is the fourth in the 'Christian Perspectives on something legal' series, a series which has done much to inspire biblical thinking on legal issues in recent years. The series fits well with wider moves to encourage us to live integrated lives in which every part, particularly that relating to work, is brought under the authority of Christ.
The book is effectively a group of essays, each taking as their subject a different legal or social sphere as a lens through which to view the limitations of the law. The exception to this is Julian Rivers's opening survey of four Christian thinkers whose work has been seminal to the development of liberalism (in the political sense). Rivers's purpose is to demonstrate that Christianity is essential to the foundations and sustenance of liberalism, properly constituted.
