Title: A report from the front lines : conversations on public theology : a festschrift in honor of Robert Benne /
Authors: Benne, Robert.; Shahan, Michael.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Christian sociology Lutheran Church.; Christian ethics Lutheran authors; Two kingdoms (Lutheran theology); Church and state Lutheran Church; Christianity and politics Lutheran Church
Contents: Introduction / John R. Stumme -- The imperative of a public theology -- The attack on transcendence and the response of Robert Benne / Michael Shahan -- The crux of Christianity's case : the resurrection of Jesus / Carl E. Braaten -- A cultural disorder : C.S. Lewis and the abolition of man / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Attending to the business that is ours / Richard John Neuhaus -- The Lutheran necessity in public theology -- The Lutheran difference / James Nuechterlein -- The Lutheran corrective / Gilbert Meilaender -- What Lutherans have to offer / Mark A. Noll -- Contested issues in public theology -- Luther and liberalism / Paul R. Hinlicky -- The public theologian as connected critic : the case of Central European churches / Ronald F. Thiemann -- Persuasion and indoctrination in Lutheran colleges / Gerald R. McDermott -- The recovery of moral and religious truth in the university / Donald D. Schmeltekopf and Michael D. Beaty -- Religious perspectives on Democratic capitalism / Joseph A. Swanson.