Freedom in response : Lutheran ethics : sources and controversies /

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Author / Creator:	Bayer, Oswald.
Uniform title:	Freiheit als Antwort. English
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:	xi, 275 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford studies in theological ethics Oxford studies in theological ethics.
Subject:	Liberty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Christian ethics. Lutheran Church -- Doctrines. Christian ethics. Liberty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Lutheran Church -- Doctrines.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6638558

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Other authors / contributors:	Cayzer, Jeffrey F., Trans.
ISBN:	9780199249091 (hbk. : alk.paper) 0199249091 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Translated from the German.
Summary:	"The leitmotif of Freedom in Response , as the title suggests, is a reasoned exposition of the nature of freedom, as it is presented in the Bible and developed by such later theologians as Martin Luther. Oswald Bayer considers Luther's teachings on pastoral care, marriage, and the three estates, bringing in Kant and Hegel as conversation partners, together with Kant's friend and critic, the innovative theologian and philosopher Johann Georg Hamann. Oswald Bayer is a major contemporary Lutheran theologian, but so far little of his work has been translated from German into English. This selection of essays indicates the depth and range of his thought on issues relating to theological ethics." -- Publisher description.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Categorical imperative or categorical gift?
2. The Heavenly Father: the dynamic of language in the ethics of the Sermon onthe Mount
3. The renewal of the mind: foundations for Christian ethics in Paul
4. Human life in the midst of life that loves living
5. `I am the Lord your God . . .'
6. Theological ethics: ethics of freedom
7. Nature and institution: Luther's doctrine of the three estates
8. Luther's ethics as pastoral care
9. Law and freedom: a metacritique of Kant
10. The Protestant understanding of marriage and family
11. Luther's view of marriage
12. Freedom and law in marriage
13. Trustees of nature: natural law and the social contract in the controversybetween Hamann and Mendelssohn
14. Learning and freedom
15. Power, law, and justice
16. Does evil persist?

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