Contributors; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citations of Legal Materials; Introduction; Ronald W. Duty and Marie A. Failinger; Part I: Framing the Problems of Law and Theology; 1. Nomos and Narrative in Civil Law and Theological Ethics; W. Bradley Wendel; 2. Why Religious Freedom?; John R. Stumme; 3. African Americans and Secular Law: A Paradoxical Relationship; Richard J. Perry Jr.; Part II: Reflections on Property and Larger Creation: Property Law and the Environment; 4. U.S. Property Law Reconsidered in Light of the Lutheran Finitum Capax Infiniti; Mary Gaebler
5. Law, Grace, Climate Change, and Water Rights in the American SouthwestRonald W. Duty; Part III: Lutheran Reflections on the Law of Human Dignity and Human Need; 6. A Lutheran Feminist Critique of American Child Protection Laws: Sins of Sexual Nature; Kirsi Stjerna; 7. Hiding in Plain Sight: Lutheran Reflections on Human Trafficking; Wanda Deifelt; 8. Bearing So Much Similar Fruit: Lutheran Theology and Comprehensive Immigration Reform; Leopoldo A. Sánchez M.; 9. God's Uses of the Law and the Effort to Establish a Constitutional Right to the Means to Live
Marie A. Failinger and Patrick R. Keifert10. Can Luther Help Modern Lawyers Understand Fiduciary Duty?; Susan R. Martyn; Part IV: Lutherans in Their Role as Citizens; 11. The Legal Framework of Lutheran Churches -- A Historical European Perspective; Svend Andersen and Morten Kjaer; 12. Military Chaplains and the Law; James M. Childs Jr.; 13. The Right to Freedom of Association: Organizing in Rwanda after Genocide; Victor Thasiah; 14. Disturbing Unjust Peace in Nigeria through the Church and Legal Reforms: The Contribution of Luther's Critical Public Theology; Ibrahim Bitrus
15. How Should Modern Lutherans Try to Shape Secular Law?Robert Benne; Table of Cases; Index of Names and Subjects
