Called by Stories
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-2501-7 (ISBN)
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Distinguished legal scholar and Presbyterian minister Milner S. Ball examines great sagas and tales from the Bible for the light they shed on the practice of law and on the meaning of a life lived in the legal profession. Scholars and laypersons alike typically think of the law as a discipline dominated by reason and empirical methods. Ball shows that many of the dilemmas and decisions that legal professionals confront are more usefully approached through an experience of narrative in which we come to know ourselves and our actions through stories.
He begins with the story of Moses, who is obliged both to speak for God to the Hebrews and to advocate for the Hebrews before God. What, asks Ball, does Moses’s predicament say to lawyers professionally bound to zealous representation of only one client? In the story of Rachel, Ball finds insights that comprehend the role of tears and emotion in the judicial process. He relates these insights to specific contemporary situations, such as a plant closing and the subsequent movement of jobs to Mexico and legal disputes over the sovereignty of native Hawaiians. In a discussion of “The Gospel According to John,” Ball points out that the writer of this gospel is free simultaneously to be critical of law and to rely extensively on it. Ball uses this narrative to explore the boundaries of free will and independence in lawyering. By venturing into the world of powerful events and biblical characters, Ball enables readers to contest their own expectations and fundamental assumptions.
Employing legal theory, theology, and literary criticism, Called by Stories distills a wisdom in biblical texts that speaks specifically to the working life of legal professionals. As such, it will enrich lovers of narrative and poetry, ethicists, literary and biblical scholars, theologians, lawyers, law students, judges, and others who seek to discern deeper meanings in the texts that have shaped their lives.
Milner S. Ball is both Harmon W. Caldwell Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He served as a judge on the International People’s Tribunal in Hawai’i in 1993 and was a founder of the annual Robert Cover Public Interest Law Retreat. A member of the Theological Anthropology Project at the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton, he is the author of many books, including The Promise of American Law, Lying Down Together, and The Word and the Law.
Prologue
I. Moses
1. Law and the “Mouth” for God
2. Intercession
3. Counsel for the Situation
4. The Word in Moses’ Situation
5. The Risks
6. The Promise of Succession
7. The Promise of Justice
8. Psalm 114
II. The Encompassing Women
9. The Midwives
10. Socratic Midwifery That Isn’t
11. Socratic Midwifery That Is
12. Are You the Lawyers?
13. Miriam
14. Rachel
15. Jeremiah’s Rachel Poem
16. Law and Tears
17. The Womb of God and Tears
III. The Gospel According to John
18. The Jerusalem Trial
19. The Gospel Trail: A Divine Lawsuit
20. A Reversal and Appeal
21. The Power of the Word: Two Women
22. The Power of the Word: Moses and the Spirit
23. The Power of the Word: Disbelief
24. John’s Freedom from and for Law
25. Lawyer’s Independence
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Index
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 844 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-2501-2 / 0822325012 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-2501-7 / 9780822325017 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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