On secular governance : Lutheran perspectives on contemporary legal issues / edited by Ronald W. Duty and Marie A. Failinger.
2016
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Title
On secular governance : Lutheran perspectives on contemporary legal issues / edited by Ronald W. Duty and Marie A. Failinger.
Published
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016.
Call Number
KF358 .O5 2016
ISBN
9780802872289 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
080287228X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
080287228X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Description
xvi, 366 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)921167088
Note
Based in part on a conference held at Valparaiso University's Chicago location at the Lutheran School of Theology, on March 27-28, 2014.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Gift
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Contributors
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Note on Citations of Legal Materials
xv
Introduction / Marie A. Failinger
1
pt. I
FRAMING THE PROBLEMS OF LAW AND THEOLOGY
1.
Nomos and Narrative in Civil Law and Theological Ethics / W. Bradley Wendel
9
2.
Why Religious Freedom? / John R. Stumme
29
3.
African Americans and Secular Law: A Paradoxical Relationship / Richard J. Perry Jr.
60
pt. II
REFLECTIONS ON PROPERTY AND LARGER CREATION: PROPERTY LAW AND THE ENVIRONMENT
4.
U.S. Property Law Reconsidered in Light of the Lutheran Finitum Capax Infiniti / Mary Gaebler
79
5.
Law, Grace, Climate Change, and Water Rights in the American Southwest / Ronald W. Duty
102
pt. III
LUTHERAN REFLECTIONS ON THE LAW OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND HUMAN NEED
6.
Lutheran Feminist Critique of American Child Protection Laws: Sins of Sexual Nature / Kirsi Stjerna
141
7.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Lutheran Reflections on Human Trafficking / Wanda Deifelt
160
8.
Bearing So Much Similar Fruit: Lutheran Theology and Comprehensive Immigration Reform / Leopoldo A. Sanchez M.
182
9.
God's Uses of the Law and the Effort to Establish a Constitutional Right to the Means to Live / Patrick R. Keifert
204
10.
Can Luther Help Modern Lawyers Understand Fiduciary Duty? / Susan R. Martyn
223
pt. IV
LUTHERANS IN THEIR ROLE AS CITIZENS
11.
Legal Framework of Lutheran Churches --- A Historical European Perspective / Morten Kjaer
247
12.
Military Chaplains and the Law / James M. Childs Jr.
266
13.
Right to Freedom of Association: Organizing in Rwanda after Genocide / Victor Thasiah
285
14.
Disturbing Unjust Peace in Nigeria through the Church and Legal Reforms: The Contribution of Luther's Critical Public Theology / Ibrahim Bitrus
305
15.
How Should Modern Lutherans Try to Shape Secular Law? / Robert Benne
328
Table of Cases
341
Index of Names and Subjects
343