Free in deed : the heart of Lutheran ethics /
Free in Deed provides an imaginative and succinct introduction to Lutheran ethics, which author Craig L. Nessan contends is, finally, neighbor ethics. The gospel of Jesus Christ sets us free to serve the well-being of our neighbors and all of creation. This Lutheran framework provides a distinctive...
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: On the study of ethics
- Biblical authority and Lutheran hermeneutics
- The authority of tradition, reason, and experience
- Gospel freedom in American context
- Luther's Two Kingdoms as God's two strategies
- Justification and sanctification
- Vocation of the universal priesthood
- The ethics of the cross
- Luther's two strategies and political advocacy
- Conclusion: The ethics of forgiveness.