Freedom in Response

Lutheran Ethics: Sources and Controversies
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-924909-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bayer, Oswald

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cayzer, Jeff

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Categorical imperative or categorical gift?

- 2: The Heavenly Father: the dynamic of language in the ethics of the Sermon on the 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 controversy between Hamann and Mendelssohn

- 14: Learning and freedom

- 15: Power, law, and justice

- 16: Does evil persist?

Über Autor(innen)

Before his retirement, Oswald Bayer was Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen.; Jeff Cayzer is a teacher and translator.