On Secular Governance: Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues
Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Citations of Legal Materials -- Introduction -- Ronald W. Duty and Marie A. Failinger -- Part I: Framing the Problems of Law and Theology -- 1. Nomos and Narrative in Civil Law and Theological Ethics -- W. Bradley Wendel -- 2. Why Religious Freedom? -- John R. Stumme -- 3. African Americans and Secular Law: A Paradoxical Relationship -- Richard J. Perry Jr. -- Part 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 -- 5. Law, Grace, Climate Change, and Water Rights in the American Southwest -- Ronald W. Duty -- Part III: Lutheran Reflections on the Law of Human Dignity and Human Need -- 6. A Lutheran Feminist Critique of American Child Protection Laws: Sins of Sexual Nature -- Kirsi Stjerna -- 7. Hiding in Plain Sight: Lutheran Reflections on Human Trafficking -- Wanda Deifelt -- 8. Bearing So Much Similar Fruit: Lutheran Theology and Comprehensive Immigration Reform -- Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. -- 9. God's Uses of the Law and the Effort to Establish a Constitutional Right to the Means to Live -- Marie A. Failinger and Patrick R. Keifert -- 10. Can Luther Help Modern Lawyers Understand Fiduciary Duty? -- Susan R. Martyn -- Part IV: Lutherans in Their Role as Citizens -- 11. The Legal Framework of Lutheran Churches - A Historical European Perspective -- Svend Andersen and Morten Kjaer -- 12. Military Chaplains and the Law -- James M. Childs Jr. -- 13. The Right to Freedom of Association: Organizing in Rwanda after Genocide -- Victor Thasiah -- 14. Disturbing Unjust Peace in Nigeria through the Church and Legal Reforms: The Contribution of Luther's Critical Public Theology -- Ibrahim Bitrus -- 15. How Should Modern Lutherans Try to Shape Secular Law? -- Robert Benne