At the end of his book, Temporal Authority: To What Extent It Should be Obeyed, Martin Luther takes up the topic of restitution, which he defines as "the return of goods wrongly acquired." In the interest of relevancy and hot takes, I am going to connect this to...
Steven Wedgeworth
Of Devils and Advocates: The Meaning of Native Graves
Some recent Roman Catholic takes draw all the wrong lessons from this national crime.
Martin Luther’s Farewell to Arms: The Two Kingdoms and the Rejection of Crusading
Martin Luther’s political theology has fallen on hard times. While it was once common to give him credit for the emergence of modern political liberties, Luther’s legacy has, especially since the second world war, soured. Many have claimed that he set the stage for an unholy sort of sacred nationalism, while more recent commentators say that Luther had no political theology at all, but was instead content to take a “hands off” approach, ceding everything to an emerging secular state.
“The First Fair Trial”: The Genealogy of the Separation of Church and State
What insight did R.L. Dabney have on the origins of American religious liberty?