Is There an Implicit Theology in the Practice of Ordinary Law?

Joseph Vining, Is There an Implicit Theology in the Practice of Ordinary Law? (October 10, 2008). Mercer Law Review Vol. 53, No. 3. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1283947

Law is not a social science. Its sister disciplines are not economics, sociology, social psychology, and political science. Does law have a sister discipline? This paper is an inquiry into whether the affinities between law and theology are such that law and theology might be viewed as sister disciplines, each a source of help to the other in its own understanding of what it contributes to thought and action in the world.