Modern Protestantism and Positive Law: The Contours of a Continental Theological Tradition. By Bradley Shingleton. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2019. Pp. 274. $53.00 (cloth); $33.00 (paper); $33.00 (digital). ISBN: 9781498245036.

Abstract

’ s excellent Modern Protestantism and Positive Law: The Contours of a Continental Theological Tradition introduces anglophone audiences to the theological and ethical reflections onlaw ofeight Germanand Swiss Protestant theologians: KarlBarth, Brunner, Ellul, Erik Wolf, Thielicke, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Wolfgang Huber, and Hartmut Kreß. Some of these thinkers — Barth, Brunner, Ellul, Thielicke, and Pannenberg — will be familiar in some degree to anglophone scholars interested in law, ethics, and theology, while others whose works appear mostly in German will be less well known.