Afterwards: Four Concerns

Abstract

This is the afterwards from a symposium entitled: "The Theology of the Practice of Law" conduct at Mercer Law School in February, 2002. I offer it here because some might be interested in the "first concern" which is about the relationship between the practice of law and the practice of theology as practices. I argue here that the way in which we have been taught to think of practices, as enclaves against meaninglessness each with its own language and each, then, a potential threat to other practices, doesn't account for what I call the "theological difference." Relying on Milbank and others, I argue that the relationship of theology to other practices is not that of another external practice crossing disciplinary lines but, instead, theology is internal to the practice of law as it is to all practices.