
Modern Protestantism and Positive Law
The Contours of a Continental Theological Tradition
Bradley Shingleton(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 31. October 2019
Book
Hardback
274 pages
978-1-4982-4503-6 (ISBN)
Description
The nature and role of positive 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 argues that theological and ethical perspectives on positive law developed by Protestant thinkers have a place in reflection 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
554 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4982-4503-6 (9781498245036)
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The Contours of a Continental Theological Tradition
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Bradley Shingleton is an independent scholar and attorney. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Duke Law School and is the author of several articles and book chapters on law, ethics, and religion.