English Public Theology: A Reformation Response to the Crisis of Natural Rights (T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics)

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Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
	Theological Interpretation of Church Tradition
	Contemporary Crisis of the English Reformation Tradition and of Liberal Rights Society
	A Critical and Constructive Theological Alternative to Modern Liberal Rights
Chapter 1: The Reformation Foundations of English Public Theology
	The Laws of Tudor Church Polity
	Authorized English Bibles
	Books of Common Prayer
	Edwardian and Elizabethan Homilies
	Forty-Two and Thirty-Nine Articles
Chapter 2: The Reformation Tradition in Crisis
	The Church’s Disengagement from the Reformation Tradition
	Exclusion of the Reformation Tradition from Political Discussion
	Challenges to the Public Status and Functioning of the Church of England
	Conclusion
Chapter 3: Diagnosing the Late Modern Polity: The Dynamics of Liberal Natural Rights
	The Interrelated Contradictions of Late Modern Society
	Clarifying the Contradictions via the History of Modern Natural Rights
	Contemporary Political and Legal Ramifications of Liberal Natural Rights
	The Scientific-Technological Trajectory of Liberal Natural Rights
	The Juridical Cultural Trajectory of Liberal Natural Rights
	Which Theological Alternative to Modern Liberal Natural Rights?
Chapter 4: Continuities of the Premodern and Modern Natural Rights Traditions
	Canonist Construction of Subjective Natural Right and Permissive Natural Right
	Juridical Ecclesiology: Imperial Papalism and Ecclesiastical Corporatism
	Formative Rights Theories: Marsilius and Ockham
	Evangelical and Naturalist Rights Theories: Wyclif and Gerson
	Thematizing Control and Freedom: Summenhart
	Toward Legal Assimilation and Overcoming of Natural Right
	Political Construction on the Natural Right of Self-Defense
	Critical Summary and Reformation Alternative
Chapter 5: The Priority of Soteriology
	A Soteriological Approach to the Imago Dei
	God’s Accomplished Work of Salvation
	Resurrection and Creation, Justification, and Revelation
	Toward a Dynamic, Relational, and Christological Imago Dei
Chapter 6: God’s Ongoing Work of Justification: Bringing Sinners to Faith
	Aspects of “A True and Lively Faith”
	The Single Object of Faith
	The Liveliness of Faith
	The Certainty of Faith
	Assurance, Election, and Predestination
	Faith and Moral Action: Toward an Ethic of Dispossession and Repossession
Chapter 7: Scriptural Communication of God’s Word of Salvation
	The Sufficiency and Authority of Scripture
	The Textual Structure of Scriptural Sufficiency
	The Divine and the Human Historical Genesis of the Text
	Redemption of Historical Community: Scripture as Divine and Human Tradition
Chapter 8: The Church’s Common Worship Informing the Practice of Faith
	The Visible Church as Worshipping Community
	Liturgical Forms of Attending to God Speaking
	Corporate Worship as Archetypical Obedience to Christ’s Rule
	The Sacraments as Faithful Action
	Corporate Worship and the Renewal of Faithful Action, Then and Now
	The Struggle of Spiritual Worship against Idolatry, Then and Now
Chapter 9: Authority in the Church
	Spiritual and Political Authority in the Articles
	Tudor Ministerial Orders against Catholic Traditions
	Evangelical Ministries in the Liturgies of Ordering
	The Reformed Discipline against Tudor Ministerial Orders
	Overcoming the Public Hegemony of Political and Technological Rule: The Publicity of Nonjuridical Practices and Authorities
Chapter 10: Political Jurisdiction under God’s Judgment
	God’s Ordination of Political Jurisdiction
	The Theological and Practical Insufficiency of Political Jurisdiction
	Political Authority and the Moral Priority of Obedience
	God’s Appointment and Equipment of the Ruler
	The Human Constraints on Political Authority
	A Theological Alternative to the Western Natural Rights Political Tradition
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