Lex charitatis
Subtitle: a juristic disquisition on law in the theology of Martin Luther
By: Johannes Heckel ; translated and edited by Gottfried G. Krodel in collaboration with Henning F. Falkenstein and Jack A. Hiller ; preface by Martin Heckel
Contributors: Krodel, Gottfried G.
Series: Emory University studies in law and religion; Emory University studies in law and religion (Unnumbered)
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780802864451
Work titles: Lex charitatis
Notes: Translated from German.

"From the second edition of Lex charitatis. Eine juristiche Untersuchung über das Recht in der Theologie Martin Luthers."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface / by Martin Heckel; title: From Martin Heckel's preface of the second German edition of Lex charitatis, 1973; title: Introduction; title: Which concept 'law' did Martin Luther affirm?; title: The present interpretation of Luther's idea of law in the context of its theological origin and of the main stages of its development; title: The problem; title: The present situation in research; title: The new formulation of the problem; title: The theological origin of Luther's doctrine of law and the development of Luther's doctrine of law; title: The sovereignty of the divine law; title: The development of Luther's doctrine of law; title: The basic features of Luther's doctrine of law; title: The basis of Luther's doctrine of law : the doctrine of the two kingdoms; title: The origin of Luther's doctrine of the two kingdoms; title: The kingdom of the world; title: The kindom of Christ; title: The kingdom of God at the right of God and the kingdom of God at the left of God; title: Luther's doctrine of law; title: The connection of the doctrine of the kingdoms with the doctrine of law; title: The divine law in the status of the incorrupt nature; title: The divine natural law; title: The divine positive law; title: Human law in the status of the corrupt nature during the age of unwritten law; title: The substantive secular natural law; title: The institutional secular natural law; title: Written law; title: The law of Christ; title: The existence of the Christian in the legal structures of this world; title: The Christian as a member of the church in the world; title: The Christian in the estate of marriage; title: The Christian in the politia; title: The spiritual basis of the Christian's freedom in the politia; title: The Christian as a legal associate in the politia; title: The Christian as a subject in the politia; title: The doctrine of the tyrant; title: The Christian in the office of governmental authority; title: Luther's doctrine of the "Christian body" especially in To the Christian nobility of the German nation; title: Retrospect; title: What happened to Luther's doctrine of law?