Includes bibliographical references and index.

The contribution of law to the secularization of politics : impulses from Luther's doctrine of the two regimes / Stefan Heuser -- Legal positivism in Lutheran ethics / Carl-Henric Grenholm -- Antinomianism--the "Lutheran" heresy / Paul R. Hinlicky -- Separability as distinction : the individual subject of the civil law / Michael J. Kessler -- Luther and Machiavelli--the human subject, religion, and the state / Michael Reid Trice -- Luther's two strategies and political advocacy : law, righteousness, reason, will, and works in their civil use / Craig L. Nessan -- A case for toleration : religious exemptions, conscientious objection, and the public good / H. David Baer -- Liberation, law, and proleptic dignity / Ted Peters -- U.S. war-culture, the Post-9/11 "unlawful alien combatant," and "peace in God's world" / Kelly Denton-Borhaug -- Economic justice and the Seventh Commandment : reformation-era insights / Mary Jane Haemig -- The doctrine of discovery in American Indian law : a Lutheran theological critique / Ronald W. Duty -- For the woman who yelled "fire!" in my backyard : rape law and Lutheran theology / Mary J. Streufert -- Re-creating the law of the family : a Lutheran perspective / Marie A. Failinger and Patrick R. Keifert -- Professional responsibility, informed consent, and neighbor love in cancer trials : theological, ethical, and legal dimensions / Deanna A. Thompson -- Role morality, dirty hands, and the theology of vocation / W. Bradley Wendel.