Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries

This books highlights the impact of Christianity on the history of law and societal policies in the Low Countries.

Wim Decock (Edited by), Janwillem Oosterhuis (Edited by)

9781108429849, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 October 2021

350 pages
23.3 x 15.5 x 2.6 cm, 0.69 kg

What impact has Christianity had on law and policies in the Lowlands from the eleventh century through the end of the twentieth century? Taking the gradual 'secularization' of European legal culture as a framework, this volume explores the lives and times of twenty legal scholars and professionals to study the historical impact of the Christian faith on legal and political life in the Low Countries. The process whereby Christian belief systems gradually lost their impact on the regulation of secular affairs passed through several stages, not in the least the Protestant Reformation, which led to the separation of the Low Countries in a Protestant North and a Catholic South in the first place. The contributions take up general issues such as the relationship between justice and mercy, Christianity and politics as well as more technical topics of state-church law, criminal law and social policy.

Great Christian jurists in the low countries Wim Decock and Janwillem Oosterhuis
1. Alger of Liège Emmanuël Falzone
2. Arnoldus Gheyloven Bram Van Hofstraeten
3. Boëtius Epo Hylkje de Jong
4. Leonardus Lessius Toon Van Houdt
5. Franciscus Zypaeus Wouter Druwé
6. Hugo Grotius Janwillem Oosterhuis
7. Paulus Voet (1619–1667) – A Christian jurist during the Dutch golden age Johannes van Kralingen
8. Ulrik Huber Atsuko Fukuoka
9. Zeger-Bernard van Espen Jan Hallebeek
10. Dionysius van der Keessel (1738–1816). The defiance of a Christian conservative E. Koops
11. Pieter Paulus (1753–1796) Matthijs de Blois
12. Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer Jan Willem Sap
13. Edouard Ducpétiaux – A Christian, but also a jurist? Frank Judo
14. Charles Périn Fred Stevens
15. Léon de Lantsheere (1862–1912) Peter Heyrman
16. Paul Scholten Timo Slootweg
17. Willem Duynstee Corjo Jansen
18. Jules Storme (1887–1955), the Catholic jurist and the growing pains of Christian democracy in Belgium Dirk Heirbaut
19. Herman Dooyeweerd Bas Hengstmengel
20. Josse Mertens de Wilmars (1912–2002) Laurent Waelkens.

Subject Areas: Legal history [LAZ], Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB], Church history [HRCC2]