A report from the front lines
Subtitle: conversations on public theology : a festschrift in honor of Robert Benne
By: edited by Michael Shahan.
Contributors: Shahan, Michael.; Benne, Robert.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780802848635
Subjects: Christian sociology -- Lutheran Church; Christian ethics -- Lutheran authors; Two kingdoms (Lutheran theology); Church and state -- Lutheran Church; Christianity and politics -- Lutheran Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John R. Stumme; title: The imperative of a public theology; title: The attack on transcendence and the response of Robert Benne / Michael Shahan; title: The crux of Christianity's case : the resurrection of Jesus / Carl E. Braaten; title: A cultural disorder : C.S. Lewis and the abolition of man / Jean Bethke Elshtain; title: Attending to the business that is ours / Richard John Neuhaus; title: The Lutheran necessity in public theology; title: The Lutheran corrective / Gilbert Meilaender; title: What Lutherans have to offer / Mark Noll; title: Contested issues in public theology; title: Luther and liberalism / Paul R. Hinlicky; title: The public theologian as connected critic : the case of Central European churches / Ronald F. Thiemann; title: Persuasion and indoctrination in Lutheran colleges / Gerald R. McDermott; title: The recovery of moral and religious truth in the university / Donald D. Schmeltekopf and Michael D. Beaty; title: Religious perspectives on Democratic capitalism / Joseph A. Swanson.