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16 See, e.g., ROBERT E. RODES, JR., THE LEGAL ENTERPRISE (1976). Professor Rodes teaches at the University of Notre Dame Law School. Professor Rodes has been described by Tom Shaffer as "a rendition of traditional natural law that is faithfully Catholic, and deep, and creative." Shaffer, supra note 1, at 671.

17 See, e.g., Teresa Stanton Collett, Heads, Secularists Win; Tails, Believers Lose-Returning Only Free Exercise to the Political Process, 20 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L.J. 689 (1999). Professor Collett teaches at South Texas College of Law, which is affiliated with Texas A&M University. See A Chronological History (visited Feb. 17, 2001) .

18 See, e.g., Anthony J. Fejfar, Beyond Babel: A Critical Realist Reflection on Tom Shaffer's Legal Ethics as Ethics, 19 CAP. U. L. REV. 1009 (1990). Professor Fejfar teaches law at Widener University School of Law-Harrisburg Campus.

19 See, e.g., Timothy W. Floyd, The Practice of Law as a Vocation or Calling, 66 FORDHAM L. REV. 1405 (1998). Professor Floyd teaches at the Texas Tech University School of Law.

20 See, e.g., ROBERT P. GEORGE, MAKING MEN MORAL: CIVIL LIBERTIES AND PUBLIC MORALITY (1993). Professor George teaches at Princeton University, which admittedly has a religious heritage. See A Princeton Timeline (visited Feb. 17, 2001) . The fellowship of Catholic Scholars honored Professor George with the 1999 Cardinal Wright Award for rendering "outstanding service to the church by integrating the faith into scholarship of the highest quality." Fellowship of Catholic Scholars: News & Information (visited Feb. 17, 2001) .

21 See, e.g., MARY ANN GLENDON, THE TRANSFORMATION OF FAMILY LAW: STATE, LAW, AND FAMILY IN THE UNITED STATES AND WESTERN EUROPE (1989). Professor Glendon led the Holy Sees delegation to the Bejing Conference and teaches at Harvard University, a secular institution with religious roots. See The Pope's New Feminism (visited Feb. 17, 2001) .

22 See, e.g., RADICAL CHRISTIAN AND EXEMPLARY LAWYER: HONORING WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW (Andrew W. McThenia, Jr. ed., 1995). Professor McThenia teaches at Washington and Lee School of Law.

23 See JOSEPH G. ALLEGRETTI, THE LAWYER'S CALLING: CHRISTIAN FAITH AND LEGAL PRACTICE (1996). For the resulting review of Allegretti's book, see Randy Lee, Faith Through Lawyering: Finding and Doing What Is Mine to Do, 11 REGENT U. L. REV. 71 (1998-99).

24 See Thomas L. Shaffer, Erastian and Sectarian Arguments in Religiously Affiliated American Law Schools, 45 STAN. L. REV. 1859, 1863 (1993).

25 See id.

26 Acts 4:32.

27 1 Corinthians 12:26.

28 See John 15:12 ("[L]ove one another as I love you.").

29 See Acts 15:1-2 (acknowledging the debate within the early Church on the need to circumcise the Gentiles). Professor Powell points out that communities, in fact, are united as much by "the problems they think important as the answers they think correct." POWELL, supra note 14, at 30.

30 See 1 Corinthians 3:3 ("While there is jealousy and rivalry among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving in an ordinary human way?").