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Author:

Shingleton, A. Bradley, author.

Title:

Modern Protestantism and positive law : the contours of a continental theological tradition / Bradley Shingleton.

Publisher:

Pickwick Publications,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xii, 262 pages : 23 cm.

Subject:

Religion and law--Germany--History.
Reformation--Germany.
Law and ethics.
Church and state.
Religion and state.
Legal positivism.
Religion and state.
Legal positivism.
Law and ethics.
Church and state.
Reformation.
Religion and law.
Germany.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262).

Contents:

Karl Barth : The Christocentric premise of law -- Emil Brunner : The Orders of creation and law -- Jacques Ellul : The Foundation of law -- Erik Wolf : The Law of the neighbor -- Helmut Thielicke : Law as provisional compromise -- Wolfhart Pannenberg : Law as mutuality and reciprocity -- Wolfgang Huber : Law as an instrument of preferential justice -- Postscript : Harmut Kre© : The Ethics of the legal order.

Summary:

The nature and role of positve law has largely been neglected in recent Protestant theology and social ethics. Modern Protestantism and Positive Law introduces and critically summarizes a tradition in Continental Protestant thought about human law, drawing on writings of Barth, Brunner, Ellul, Thielicke, Wolf, Pannenberg, Huber, and Kre©, many of which have not been translated into English. The book argues that law is an essential political and social institution within developed societies, one that is normative and dependent on an encompassing vision of justice but that also necessarily reflects the contemporary pluralism of those societies. Modern Protestantism and Positive Law argue that theological and ethical perspectives on positive law developed by Protestant thinkers have a place in feflection on positive law, provided they are conceived and expressed in a manner appropriately respectful of the diversity of contemporary opinion regarding the expression of religious perspectives in the public arena.

ISBN:

9781532619021
1532619022

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1127854042

LCCN:

2018456307

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)