Lutheran Theology and Secular Law

The Work of the Modern State
Herausgeber: Failinger, Marie A; Duty, Ronald W

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together lawyers and theologians in the U.S. and Europe to reflect on Lutheran understandings of the political use of the law by secular governments. The work discusses the application of Lutheran theological principles to contemporary issues such as Native land rights, property law, family law, medical experimentat

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780367591441
• ISBN-10: 0367591448
• Artikelnr.: 66557557

Autorenporträt

Marie A. Failinger is a Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline University School of Law. She was editor in chief of the Journal of Law and Religion from 1988 to 2013, and has published dozens of law review and other articles, including several on Lutheran theology and law. She is also a co-editor of Feminism, Law and Religion (2013), On Secular Governance (2016); and The Poverty Law Canon (2016). Dr. Ronald W. Duty served as Assistant Director of Studies at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Among his published works are chapters in Testing the Spirits (Eerdmans, ed. Patrick Keifert 2009) and On Secular Governance (Eerdmans, eds. Ronald W. Duty and Marie A. Failinger, 2016) and articles in The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, dialog, The Journal of Lutheran Ethics, and Word & World.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Our Secular Age; 1. The Contribution of Law to the Secularization
of Politics: Impulses from Luther's Doctrine of the Two Regimes - Stefan
Heuser; Part II: Lutheran theology and legal philosophy; 2. Legal
Positivism in Lutheran Ethics - Carl-Henric Grenholm; 3. Antinomianism: The
"Lutheran" Heresy - Paul R. Hinlicky; Part III: The Individual and the
State; 4. Separability as Distinction: The Individual Subject of the Civil
Law - Michael J. Kessler; 5. Luther and Machiavelli: The Human Subject,
Religion and the State - Michael Reid Trice; 6. Luther's Two Strategies and
Political Advocacy: Law, Righteousness, Reason, Will and Works in their
Civil Use - Craig L. Nessan; 7. A Case for Toleration: Religious
Exemptions, Conscientious Objection, and the Public Good - H. David Baer;
Part IV. International Law and Human Rights; 8. Liberation, Law and
Proleptic Dignity - Ted Peters; 9. U.S. War-culture, The Post-9/11
"Unlawful Alien Combatant," and "Peace in God's World" - Kelly
Denton-Borhaug; Part V: Domestic Legal Issues; 10. Economic Justice and the
Seventh Commandment: Reformation-era Insights - Mary Jane Haemig; 11. The
Doctrine of Discovery in American Indian Law: A Lutheran Theological
Critique - Ronald W. Duty; 12. For the Woman Who Yelled "Fire!" in my
Backyard: Rape Law and Lutheran Theology - Mary J. Streufert; 13.
Re-creating the Law of the Family: A Lutheran Perspective - Marie A.
Failinger and Patrick R. Keifert; Part VI: Professionals, Law and
Neighbor-Love; 14. Professional Responsibility, Informed Consent and
Neighbor Love in Cancer Trials: Theological, Ethical and Legal Dimensions -
Deanna A. Thompson; 15. Role Morality, Dirty Hands and the Theology of
Vocation - W. Bradley Wendel;