Interview with Jon Maire
Jon Maire discusses his article “The Possibility of a Christian Jurisprudence” in this interview with Brian Dennison.
From the Introduction of the Article:
Jurisprudential theory today presents a virtual smorgasbord of delicacies, and there is something there for virtually everyone. Critical legal theory has watered the mouths of Marxist, feminists, and others who had felt themselves excluded from the table, while law and economic theory has enticed the glorifiers of laissez faire capitalism. But there is something there for the Christian.
What lends poignancy to this question is the fact that the “paradigm” of legal positivism—which has sought for a century to keep law pure from normative entanglements—is crumbling before our very eyes. The theories just mentioned do more than tell us what law is—they tell us what law ought to be. Law is no longer seen as immune from the influences of political, economic, or moral theory. We have been duped, we are told, to have ever believe that it was.
While the Christian might rejoice over the demise of the positivist refrain that law and morality must be separate, he or she must now think deeply of the implications that has for connections between the law, morality, and religion. This essay is an attempt to address these implications.
-Maire, Jonathan Edward. "The Possibility of a Christian Jurisprudence." Am. J. Juris. 40 (1995): 101.