Theology and Contemporary Legal Issues: Lutheran Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138245136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 190 str.

Marie Failinger; Ronald W. Duty

Opis

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 experimentation, and the criminal law of rape.

Spis treści

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;