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Introduction: why another book? -- On religion and politics? -- The separationists -- The fusionists -- Critical engagement : moving from core to public policy -- The practical engagement -- Of religion and politics

Benne reviews 'Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death' by Richard Marius.

Introduction / John R. Stumme -- The imperative of a public theology -- The attack on transcendence and the response of Robert Benne / Michael Shahan -- The crux of Christianity's case : the resurrection of Jesus / Carl E. Braaten -- A cultural disorder : C.S. Lewis and the abolition of man / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Attending to the business that is ours / Richard John Neuhaus -- The Lutheran necessity in public theology -- The Lutheran corrective / Gilbert Meilaender -- What Lutherans have to offer / Mark Noll -- Contested issues in public theology -- Luther and liberalism / Paul R. Hinlicky -- The public theologian as connected critic : the case of Central European churches / Ronald F. Thiemann -- Persuasion and indoctrination in Lutheran colleges / Gerald R. McDermott -- The recovery of moral and religious truth in the university / Donald D. Schmeltekopf and Michael D. Beaty -- Religious perspectives on Democratic capitalism / Joseph A. Swanson

In the midst of pervasive malaise America tries to look forward to celebrating its bicentennial. It is not an easy thing to celebrate a birthday when the body and spirit are sick. Little wonder that social analysts and critics are calling for a renewal of the American spirit, the recovery of an American tradition from the distortions of our recent past. It is this tradition that must provide guidance for the future that is already upon us. Daniel Bell, in his The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, is but the latest of the company of exhorters, which includes such critics as Sydney Ahlstrom, Robert Bellah and Gibson Winter.