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This classic work by one of Europe's most respected
twentieth-century legal minds tackles law through the eyes of
Martin Luther. Johannes Heckel first reveals the basic features of
Luther's doctrine of law in its totality, drawing from an
overwhelming amount of material from all genres of Luther's
writing. Heckel then considers how Luther viewed law as the
framework for the existence of a Christian in this world. He
develops a picture of Luther's position on law by grounding it in
Luther's theology, arguing that his concept of natural law has to
be understood in terms of the divine and the secular. Finally,
Heckel shows the practicality of Luther's position by focusing on
the places in which a Christian interacts with legality in this
world -- church, marriage and family, and politics. / "When
Johannes Heckel's Lex Charitatis appeared more than half a century
ago it brought new clarity to the much disputed issue of Luther's
understanding of the law and of God's governance of his created
order. . . . Having Heckel's work in English will assist scholars
and students alike in putting Luther's insights to use in the
context of twenty-first-century problems." / -- Robert Kolb,
Concordia Seminary
The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to
Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and
intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to
Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by
which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary
array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the
course of religious conversion from the transference of traditional
African religions to the New World through the growth of Protestant
Christianity in the American South and British Caribbean up to
1830. Come Shouting to Zion depicts religious transformation as a
complex reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians.
It highlights the role of African American preachers in the
conversion process and demonstrates the extent to which African
American women were responsible for developing distinctive ritual
patterns of worship and divergent moral values within the black
spiritual community. Finally, the book sheds light on the ways in
which, by serving as a channel for the assimilation of Western
culture into the slave quarters, Protestant Christianity helped
transform Africans into African Americans. |An exploration of the
conversion of African-born slaves to Protestant Christianity, a
reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians.
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