Lutheran Theology and Secular Law

Marie A. Failinger is a Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline University School of Law. She was editor in chief of the Journal of Law and Religion from 1988 to 2013, and has published dozens of law review and other articles, including several on Lutheran theology and law. She is also a co-editor of Feminism, Law and Religion (2013), On Secular Governance (2016); and The Poverty Law Canon (2016). Dr. Ronald W. Duty served as Assistant Director of Studies at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Among his published works are chapters in Testing the Spirits (Eerdmans, ed. Patrick Keifert 2009) and On Secular Governance (Eerdmans, eds. Ronald W. Duty and Marie A. Failinger, 2016) and articles in The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, dialog, The Journal of Lutheran Ethics, and Word & World.

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;