Research Catalog

Title

The teachings of modern Protestantism on law, politics, and human nature / edited by John Witte Jr. and Frank S. Alexander ; introduction by Mark A. Noll.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Witte, John, Jr., 1959-
• Alexander, Frank S., 1952-

Description

xxxiii, 471 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Landmark

Subjects

• Protestant churches > Doctrines
• Protestantism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction to modern Protestantism / Mark A. Noll -- Abraham Kuyper (1827-1920) -- Commentary / Nicholas P. Wolterstorff -- Original source materials -- Confidentially (confidentie) -- Lectures on calvinism -- Encyclopedia of sacred theology : its principles -- Calvinism and politics -- Common grace -- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) -- Commentary / Mary D. Pellauer -- Original source materials -- A temperance speech : the church and the liquor traffic (1852) -- Antislavery speeches -- Anthony's speech at her trial for voting (1873) -- The bread of dependence -- Social purity -- Anthony and the spiritualists (1890s) -- Speech in the woman's bible controversy (1896) -- Karl Barth (1886-1968) -- Commentary / George Hunsinger -- Original source materials -- Jesus Christ and the movement for social justice -- Commentary on Rom. 13.1 -- Ethics -- The knowledge of God and the service of God -- Church dogmatics -- The christian community and the civil community -- Church dogmatics -- Petition of the bruderschaften on nuclear weapons -- The Christian life -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) -- Commentary / Milner Ball -- Original source materials -- The nature of the church : summer 1932 -- Thy kingdom come : the prayer of the church for the kingdom of God on earth -- Creation and fall : the image of God on earth -- Discipleship -- Temptation -- Letters and papers from prison -- Letters to eberhard bethge -- Thoughts on the day of the baptism of Dietrich Wilhelm Rdiger Bethge -- Further letters to Eberhard Bethge -- Ethics -- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) -- Commentary / Davison M. Douglas -- Original source materials -- The nature and destiny of man : a Christian interpretation -- Christianity and power politics : why the Christian church is not pacifist -- The children of light and the children of darkness : a vindication of democracy and a critique of its traditional defence -- Love and law in Protestantism and Catholicism -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) -- Commentary / Timothy P. Jackson -- Original source material -- Letter from Birmingham jail -- William Stringfellow (1928-1985) -- Commentary / Frank S. Alexander -- Original source materials -- A simplicity of faith : my experience in mourning -- The Christian lawyer as a churchman -- Free in obedience -- An ethic for Christians and other aliens in a strange land -- The politics of spirituality -- John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) -- Commentary / Duncan B. Forrester -- Original source materials -- Regarding nature -- The priestly kingdom -- When war is unjust -- The politics of jesus : vicit agnus noster -- "Patience" as a method in moral reasoning : is an ethic of discipleship absolute?

Call Number

JFE 07-8022

ISBN

• 9780231142625 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231142625 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231142632 (pbk.)
• 0231142633 (pbk.)

LCCN

2007002771

OCLC

81150163

Title

The teachings of modern Protestantism on law, politics, and human nature / edited by John Witte Jr. and Frank S. Alexander ; introduction by Mark A. Noll.

Imprint

New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

Series

Landmark

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Witte, John, Jr., 1959-

Alexander, Frank S., 1952-

Research Call Number

JFE 07-8022