Our blog offers short, accessible, reflections on important and urgent issues for Christian lawyers, and anyone else involved in law. Here you’ll find quick, stimulating reads created to help and encourage you as you practise your legal vocation – and, indeed, as you live all of life – as a follower of Christ.

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Theologians and the Law Series

Abraham Kuyper and the Law

Abraham Kuyper’s insights into law and society remain as relevant today as they were in his time. In the blog post David McIlroy explores some of Kuyper’s most important ideas, highlighting how his theological convictions shaped his vision for law, politics, and the social order.

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Theologians and the Law Series

Calvin and the Law: How God’s Law reveals God’s Grace

This article explores John Calvin’s integration of theology, law, and social justice, emphasizing his view that secular rulers, guided by the Law of Moses and natural law, should uphold moral standards, social welfare, and religious protection, and discusses how Calvin’s ideas influenced the development of democratic thought and the relationship between Church and State.

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Common Law

Christianity and the Common Law: An Irish Perspective

The post discusses a 2024 conference at Kylemore Abbey where scholars explored Irish Christian perspectives on the common law, highlighting Richard O’Sullivan’s view that the common law embodies Christian values which promote human flourishing, natural law, and resistance to totalitarianism.

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Politics

Politics, Prayer, and Priorities

As we navigate through 2024, an election year, it’s essential to reflect on biblical principles that can guide us in discerning which parties and candidates to support. This post is something of a summary of that sermon for readers of the Theology of Law blog, and explores—as the sermons does in greater detail—the intersection of faith and politics, focusing on Jesus’ teachings, the importance of prayer, and the biblical view of government and justice.

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Soul Care For Lawyers

On Being Finite

David McIlroy explores the contours and goodness of what it means to be finite in this instalment of the Soul Care for Lawyers series.

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Soul Care For Lawyers

Two Kinds of Asceticism

David McIlroy points us to the spiritual disciplines as a way to open ourselves to intimacy with God and fellowship with others.

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Soul Care For Lawyers

I am a Lawyer because I am sin-rounded

The day-to-day practice of law can feel like a further weight of brokenness, selfishness, disingenuousness and compromise. Cases revolving around people’s abject failure to love each other even vaguely like Jesus commanded… Yet, in a sense even our discouragement can be an encouragement to us.

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