Title

Law

Authors

James Gaffney
Hatam al Haj
Liyakat Takim

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Christian understanding of law, as of many other social institutions, derives from both biblical and classical sources. In its broadest sense, the term law is applied to all regularities of behavior, including predictable sequences of events in the natural world, as in modern reference to more or less "scientific" laws such as "universal gravitation" or "supply and demand."

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Recommended Citation

Gaffney, James; al Haj, Hatam; and Takim, Liyakat, "Law" (2021). Muslim-Christian Dialogues. 13.
https://ir.stthomas.edu/encounteringislam/13