This volume is part of a 50-volume series on Great Christian Jurists presenting the
interaction of law and Christianity through the biographies of 1000 legal figures of the past
two millennia. This volume presents 26 major German legal scholars from Albert the Great and
Eike von Repgow in the Middle Ages to Konrad Adenauer and Stephan Kuttner in the twentieth
century. Each chapter analyzes the influence of Christianity on their lives and legal work and
sketches their enduring influence on the laws of church and state. Featuring freshly written
chapters this is the first overview in English of the relationship of Christianity and German
law in the second millennium. Included are studies of both famous and long forgotten Catholics
and Protestants and both martyrs and collaborators with Nazism and earlier forms of state
autocracy. Authoritative accessible and engaging this study is a vital scholarly resource
and classroom text.
