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On Secular Governance

Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues
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In recent decades, scholars in the fields of law and theological ethics have begun to explore how religious insights might inform both jurisprudence and practical lawmaking at all levels of government. On Secular Governance offers a distinctive Lutheran focus on how individuals and societies can participate in God's work of creating a just and trustworthy world through law. This volume comprises essays by legal and theological scholars from the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Europe collaboratively addressing a wide range of practical subjects - women's issues, property law and the environment, immigration reform, church-state questions, and more. Providing uniquely Lutheran insights, this accessible text is an important contribution to the larger human conversation about how we should order our common life in this world.
Ronald W. Duty is the retired assistant director for Studies in Church and Society at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Marie A. Failinger is professor of law at Hamline School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Journal of Lutheran Ethics "A fascinating collection of modern legal issues looked at from a Lutheran perspective. . . . Challenging and engaging." Gary Simpson -- Luther Seminary "What Ronald Duty and Marie Failinger have accomplished has never been done before! Until now, Lutherans have remained largely absent from the vigorous, interdisciplinary field of law and religion. Together for the first time, Lutheran authorities in the fields of secular law and Christian theology explore how classic Lutheran themes offer wisdom for contemporary legal questions. This volume will surely kindle future engagement." Cathleen Kaveny -- Boston College "The political theology of Martin Luther continues to have a tremendous effect on the political imagination of the West. At last we have a volume that examines pressing issues at the intersection of law and morality -- religious freedom, racism, climate change, restorative justice -- through the realistic and creative lens of Lutheran thought. The insights provided by this distinguished interdisciplinary group of authors are of broad and ecumenical relevance."
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