Milner S Ball
Biographic Data
| ID | 2550276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Milner S Ball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Milner S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ball |
| SIGNATURE | BALL M S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why Law, Why Religion?—A Conversation Between a Lawyer and a Theologian
Howard Vogel invited Doug Sturm and me to explain ourselves. Why did we take up law? Why theology? And why law and theology together? He encouraged us to offer personal accounts in response, and I am glad to comply. Why law? The answer is simple. I had no choice. I was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in 1961, and in 1962 became minister to a small congregation in a small town in middle Tennessee. In 1966 I was named the Presby…
Listening for God
Called by Stories
Distinguished legal scholar and Presbyterian minister Milner S. Ball examines great sagas and tales from the Bible for the light they shed on the practice of law and on the meaning of a life lived in the legal profession. Scholars and laypersons alike typically think of the law as a discipline dominated by reason and empirical methods. Ball shows that many of the dilemmas and decisions that legal professionals confront are more usefully approache…
The Word and the Law
author takes an experimental journey into the inner life of law and the careers of men and women who use it to help disadvantaged people and to strengthen the fabric of the communities in which they live. At the centre of this work are portraits of seven contemporary legal practitioners - lawyers, judges, and advocates - who have devoted their lives to an unconventional vision of the law. In their work, in areas from New York City housing court t…
Out of the West Rides an Unmasked Stranger
Judge Posner, Professor Fish, and Law as Rhetoric
Law and Prophets, Bridges and Judges
Aviam Soifer said that Robert Cover's death left many of us with the feeling that a vital conversation had been interrupted in mid-sentence. 1 What follows are notes for an unfinished conversation2 on the metaphor of law as bridge3 and the prophetic function of the judge.4 They are only preparatory background material. Their focus is upon some tough biblical texts, the kind that leave the mark of their infectious truculence upon those whom they i…
Tribal Diversities and American Response
Lying down Together
Law is understood, interpreted, and practiced by metaphor. The presently dominant, conceptual metaphor for law is that law is the bulwark of freedom. Milner S. Ball, in this experimental statement, invites the reader to consider an alternate metaphor: law is a medium of human solidarity. A more humane metaphor for law, Ball s alternative connotes an open-ended conductor allowing for exchange and flow rather than the defensive wall or barrier asso…
The Promise of American Law--A Theological, Humanistic View of Legal Process
Law Natural
Cross and Sword, Victim and Law
The Play's the Thing
The Play's the Thing
Cross and Sword, Victim and Law
The Promise of American Law--A Theological, Humanistic View of Legal Process
Law Natural
Lying down Together
Law is understood, interpreted, and practiced by metaphor. The presently dominant, conceptual metaphor for law is that law is the bulwark of freedom. Milner S. Ball, in this experimental statement, invites the reader to consider an alternate metaphor: law is a medium of human solidarity. A more humane metaphor for law, Ball s alternative connotes an open-ended conductor allowing for exchange and flow rather than the defensive wall or barrier asso…
Law and Prophets, Bridges and Judges
Aviam Soifer said that Robert Cover's death left many of us with the feeling that a vital conversation had been interrupted in mid-sentence. 1 What follows are notes for an unfinished conversation2 on the metaphor of law as bridge3 and the prophetic function of the judge.4 They are only preparatory background material. Their focus is upon some tough biblical texts, the kind that leave the mark of their infectious truculence upon those whom they i…
Tribal Diversities and American Response
Judge Posner, Professor Fish, and Law as Rhetoric
Out of the West Rides an Unmasked Stranger
Listening for God
Called by Stories
Distinguished legal scholar and Presbyterian minister Milner S. Ball examines great sagas and tales from the Bible for the light they shed on the practice of law and on the meaning of a life lived in the legal profession. Scholars and laypersons alike typically think of the law as a discipline dominated by reason and empirical methods. Ball shows that many of the dilemmas and decisions that legal professionals confront are more usefully approache…
The Word and the Law
author takes an experimental journey into the inner life of law and the careers of men and women who use it to help disadvantaged people and to strengthen the fabric of the communities in which they live. At the centre of this work are portraits of seven contemporary legal practitioners - lawyers, judges, and advocates - who have devoted their lives to an unconventional vision of the law. In their work, in areas from New York City housing court t…
Why Law, Why Religion?—A Conversation Between a Lawyer and a Theologian
Howard Vogel invited Doug Sturm and me to explain ourselves. Why did we take up law? Why theology? And why law and theology together? He encouraged us to offer personal accounts in response, and I am glad to comply. Why law? The answer is simple. I had no choice. I was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in 1961, and in 1962 became minister to a small congregation in a small town in middle Tennessee. In 1966 I was named the Presby…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes (3 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (3 works)