ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an account of the origin and evolution, the genesis and exodus, of Harold J. Berman's work in law and religion. It analyzes the sources of his inspiration and instruction in the law and religion field. The chapter summarizes the principal themes of his work in law and religion. In the field of law and religion, Harold J. Berman has been an inspired and inspiring leader. Berman has, throughout his career, sought to integrate not only the subjects of law and religion but law and all other humane disciplines. Since the mid-nineteenth century in America, he argues, legal education and liberal education have become increasingly balkanized. Legal studies and liberal studies, Berman argues, must be brought together, both in the mind of the student and in the makeup of the university. His favorite jurists are Gratian, Matthew Hale, and Joseph Story, all of whom wrote concordances of discordant canons.
