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What Hath Faith Wrought? - Faith and Law: How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law. By Robert F. Cochran. New York University Press2008. Pp.299. $25.00. ISBN: 0-814-71673-3.

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Faith and Law: How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law. By Robert F. Cochran. New York University Press2008. Pp.299. $25.00. ISBN: 0-814-71673-3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , 2008 , pp. 195 - 199
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2008

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1. On Stringfellow's influence on Christian lawyering, see Radical Christian and Exemplary Lawyer: Honoring William Stringfellow (McThenia, Andrew W. Jr. ed., Eerdmans Publg. Co. 1995)Google Scholar. A bibliography of Stringfellow's many works is found in A Keeper of the Word: Selected Writings of William Stringfellow 416–426 (Kellermann, Bill Wylie ed., Eerdmans Publg. Co. 1994)Google Scholar.

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8. See Daniel J. Wakin & Julia Preston, Pope Speaks Up for Immigrants, Touching a Nerve, http://www.nytimesxom/2008/04/20/us/20catholics.html?_r=l&pagewanted=l&fta=y&oref=slog in (last accessed Sept. 22, 2008) (noting statements of Benedict supportive of immigrants which “pointedly avoiding any specifics of the American immigration debate, like the issue of whether to grant legal status to illegal immigrants”).