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September 2009
- Table of Contents
- Two Concepts of Forgiveness
- The Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality: How Not to Derive “ought” from “Is”
- Response to “Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality”
- A King's Wit, the People's Judgment, and a House Harmonious: Three Models of Early Christian Criminal Justice
- Helmut Thielicke on the Christian Life
August 2009
- Table of Contents
- Introduction to the August Issue
- We Would See Jesus, not You
- Framing Stem Cell Arguments
- "Is There Really a Relationship between Genetics and Social Location"[1]
- Responses and Reflection for the Annual Gathering of Lutheran Ethicists
- Human Genetics: Threads from a Conversation
- Response to the June JLE on “The Shock Doctrine”
- Michael Root: A Second Opinion
- The ELCA: Too Big To Fail? . . . Or Too Wrong Not To?
- Thinking Together about a Lutheran Ethic of Responsibility in the Age of Genetics
April 2009
- Table of Contents
- A Matter of Trust
- A Preliminary, Quick Review of the ELCA’s Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality
- Be Careful What You Ask for
- Immoral People, Broken Markets, Christian Freedom
- A Return to the Garden
- Assessing Climate Policy Proposals: Ethical Guidelines
- Doing Our First Works Over
- Lutheran Sermons on Lincoln's Assassination: Part 1
- Musings on Climate Justice: A Subaltern Perspective
- The Virtues of Hunger in Classical Islamic Thought and Its Relevance for a Culture of Satiety
March 2009
- Table of Contents
- Trying to Understand the 2008-2009 Recession: Part 1, Perspective and Causes
- Trying to Understand the 2008-2009 Recession: Part 2, Remedies
- Reflections on the Economic Downturn
- The Economics Underlying the Ethics of Fiscal Stimuli
- Introduction to the Reviewers
- Luther and the Hungry Poor
- Luther and the Hungry Poor
- Lutheran Ethics in a Troubled Global Economy
- A New Deal for the Global Economy
- A Lutheran Resolution on the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln’s Response to a Lutheran Delegation
February 2009: Human Rights and Family (Double Issue)
- Table of Contents
- Human Rights and Family
- Ethical Decision Points in the History of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
- A Report on the Outcomes of the Consultation: The Churches and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Marking 60 Years and Enhancing the Future
- A Faith Basis for 60 Years of Human Rights Work by Churches
- Response to Pfrimmer -- "The Faith Basis for 60 Years of Human Rights Work by Churches"
- A Human Rights-Based Approach to Advocacy: the Role of the Church
- "Akinamama Model" for Promoting Human Rights in the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Human Rights and Immigration
- Human Rights and Climate Change
- The Right to Property and Daily Bread: Thinking with Luther about Human Economic Rights
- A Lutheran Approach to the Family Values: Focus on Fiducia
- On Marriage and Family
- Placing the Early Christian Family in its Roman Context
- The Neuhaus Legacy and Lutherans
- Cruelty in the Mind of God
- American Exceptionalism and International Human Rights