On Secular Governance: Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues - Paperback
On Secular Governance: Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues - Paperback
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by Ronald W. Duty (Author), Marie A. Failinger (Author)
This volume puts forth an unprecedented, distinctive Lutheran take on the intersection of law and religion in our society today. On Secular Governance gathers the collaborative reflections of legal and theological scholars on a range of subjects -- women's issues, property law and the environment, immigration reform, human trafficking, church-state questions, and more -- all addressed from uniquely Lutheran points of view.
Author Biography
Ronald W. Duty is the retired assistant director for Studies in Church and Society at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Marie D. Failinger (1952-2025) held law degrees from Valparaiso Law School and Yale Law School. She taught at Hamline Law School for nearly four decades and edited The Journal of Law and Religion for twenty-four years. During her teaching career, she helped found the Church Innovations Institute and the Consortium for the National Equal Justice Library. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Journal of Law and Religion Achievement Award and the Minnesota Justice Foundation Law School Professor Award. She served as coeditor of the books On Secular Governance; The Poverty Law Canon; Feminism, Law, and Religion; and Lutheran Theology and Secular Law..
