Liberating Lutheran Theology

Author : Paul S. Chung,Ulrich Duchrow,Craig L. Nessan
Publisher : Studies in Lutheran History an
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800697782

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Liberating Lutheran Theology by Paul S. Chung,Ulrich Duchrow,Craig L. Nessan Pdf

Spanning the continents, three internationally respected theologians demonstrate how the thought and legacy of Martin Luther can serve in an ecumenical and interfaith context as a resource for a radical critique of global economics and culture. Lutheran Christianity originated in its own era of economic and cultural crisis. One of the great misinterpretations of Martin Luther has considered his heritage as fundamentally reactionary, seeking to preserve the political status quo. Instead, set free by the biblical message of liberation, this book wields Luther's theology to engage the reality of poverty, hunger, oppression, and ecological degradation caused by an imperial capitalism as the most urgent theological issues in the contemporary world. The volume demonstrates the liberating possibilities of theology done out of a biblical and Lutheran perspective for the economic and cultural crises facing the church in the present century.

Author : Vitor Westhelle
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506469621

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Liberating Luther by Vitor Westhelle Pdf

Until his untimely death, Vitor Westhelle's incisive scholarship shaped a generation. As a continuation of that legacy, presented here for the first time in English is a collection of Westhelle's Portuguese-language essays. In this collection, he addresses the most important issues of our day, including the cross and death, the ecological crisis, the ecumenical movement, the church's misuse of power, Luther's law-gospel dialectic, and the role of European theology in the conquest of the Americas.

Author : Carl-Henric Grenholm,Goran Gunner
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227904480

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Lutheran Identity and Political Theology by Carl-Henric Grenholm,Goran Gunner Pdf

Lutheran tradition has in various ways influenced attitudes to work, the economy, the state, education, and health care. One reason that Lutheran theology has been interpreted in various ways is that it is always influenced by surrounding social andcultural contexts. In a society where the church has lost a great deal of its cultural impact and authority, and where there is a plurality of religious convictions, the question of Lutheran identity has never been more urgent. However, this question is also raised in the Global South where Lutheran churches need to find their identity in a relationship with several other religions. Here this relationship is developed from a minority perspective. Is it possible to develop a Lutheran political theology that gives adequate contributions to issues concerning social and economic justice? What is the role of women in church and society around the world? Is it possible to interpret Lutheran theology in such a way that it includes liberating perspectives? These are some of the questions and issues discussed in this book.

Author : Walter Altmann
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506408033

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Luther and Liberation by Walter Altmann Pdf

With the approach of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s inauguration of the Protestant Reformation and the burgeoning dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans opened under Pope Francis, this new edition of Walter Altmann’s Luther and Liberation is timely and relevant. Luther and Liberation recovers the liberating and revolutionary impact of Luther’s theology, read afresh from the perspective of the Latin American context. Altmann provides a much-needed reassessment of Luther’s significance today through a direct engagement of Luther’s historical situation with an eye keenly situated on the deeply contextual situation of the contemporary reader, giving a localized reading from the author’s own experience in Latin America. The work examines with fresh vigor Luther’s central theological commitments, such as his doctrine of God, Christology, justification, hermeneutics, and ecclesiology, and his forays into economics, politics, education, violence, and war. This new edition greatly expands the original text with fresh scholarship and updated sources, footnotes, and bibliography, and contains several additional new chapters on Luther’s doctrine of God, theology of the sacraments, his controversial perspective on the Jews, and a new comparative account with the Latin American liberation theology tradition.

Author : Carl E. Braaten
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451404840

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Principles of Lutheran Theology by Carl E. Braaten Pdf

First published in 1983, Principles of Lutheran Theology has guided students into theological reflection on the landmarks of Christian faith as understood in the Lutheran confessional heritage for a generation. The book sets forth the main principles of classical Lutheran theology but with an eschatological accent. Canon, confession, ecumenicity, Christ-centeredness, sacrament, law/ gospel, and two kingdoms are all examined not only in terms of their original meaning and historical development but also in light of current reflections. In this new edition, Braaten takes stock of the research and reflection of the last twenty-five years and also adds a chapter on the distinctive, Archimedean Lutheran insight into the hiddenness of God as a fount or ground of all theologizing. This new edition, cross-referenced to key readings in Luther's Works and The Book of Concord, will both equip and facilitate the search for a contemporary articulation of Christian identity in light of the church's historic commitments.

Author : Mari-Anna Pöntinen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004245976

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African Theology as Liberating Wisdom by Mari-Anna Pöntinen Pdf

In African Theology as Liberating Wisdom; Celebrating Life and Harmony in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana, Mari-Anna Pöntinen analyses contextual interpretations of the Christian faith in this particular church. These interpretations are based on the special wisdom tradition which embraces monistic ontology, communal ethics in botho, and the indigenous belief in God as the Source of Life, and the Root of everything that exists. The constructing theological principle in the ELCB is the downward-orientated and descending God in Christ which interprets the ‘Lutheran spirit’ in a liberating and empowering sense. It deals with the cultural mythos which brings Christ down into people’s existence, unlike Western connotations which are considered to hinder seeing Christ and to prevent existential self-awareness.

Author : Mari-Anna Pöntinen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004245952

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African Theology as Liberating Wisdom by Mari-Anna Pöntinen Pdf

In African Theology as Liberating Wisdom; Celebrating Life and Harmony in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana, Mari-Anna Pöntinen analyses contextual interpretations of the Christian faith in this church. These interpretations draw from the Tswana tradition and liberation in Christ.

Author : Marie A. Failinger,Ronald W. Duty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351996075

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Lutheran Theology and Secular Law by Marie A. Failinger,Ronald W. Duty Pdf

This collection brings together lawyers and theologians in the U.S. and Europe to reflect on Lutheran understandings of the political use of the law by secular governments. The book furthers the intellectual conversation about how Lutheran insights can be used to develop jurisprudence and specific solutions to legal issues in which there is strong conflict. It presents the basic theological and interpretive assumptions of the Lutheran tradition as they may inform the creation of legislation and judicial interpretation at local, national and international levels. The authors explore Luther’s conception of the foundations of modern secular law and understanding of vocation. The work discusses the application of Lutheran theological principles to contemporary issues such as the war on terror, native land rights, property law, family law, church and state, medical experimentation, and the criminal law of rape, providing ethical insights for lawyers and lawmakers.

Author : Tinker, George E "Tink"
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608334834

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American Indian Liberation by Tinker, George E "Tink" Pdf

Author : Oscar L. Arnal
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781896357157

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To Set the Captives Free by Oscar L. Arnal Pdf

Oscar Cole Arnal is Professor of Church History at the Waterloo Lutheran Seminary.

Author : Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978703827

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The Alternative Luther by Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen Pdf

Contributors to this book analyze areas of Martin Luther’s and Lutheran theology that have otherwise been neglected or underrepresented in the five hundred years since the Reformation. They constructively widen the scope of Luther and Lutheran theology by viewing both from the perspectives of the “subaltern,” those whose voices are barely or rarely heard. The book formulates an inclusive Lutheran theology that reaches out but does not close out. The book’s sections address “Precarious Life,” from Luther’s own precarious existence as an outlaw under a death sentence to other precarious life situations seen from various Lutheran perspectives; “Body and Gender,” addressing different aspects of gender and sexuality from new angles; “Women and Sexual Abuse,” focusing on present-day problems of abuse in an encounter with Luther’s exegesis of biblical “texts of terror”; and “Economy, Equality, and Equity,” addressing Lutheran views on economy and equality that break new ground regarding common goods and the Anthropocene.

Author : Craig L. Nessan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621899822

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The Vitality of Liberation Theology by Craig L. Nessan Pdf

The Vitality of Liberation Theology argues for the ongoing necessity of a liberating theology in a world of endemic poverty and economic globalization. Although some have declared liberation theology's demise, or even its death, Nessan articulates the imperative and logic of it for a new generation. Latin American liberation theology burst forth as the most original and compelling theological movement from the developing world in the modern period. The story of the emergence and proliferation of liberation theology, as well as the opposition to this movement both within and without Latin America, is one of the most significant and lasting developments in Christianity since the last third of the twentieth century. Together with other forms of liberating theology from contexts of oppression in diverse parts of the world (anti-apartheid theology in South Africa and Namibia, Minjung theology in Korea, Dalit theology in India, or Palestinian liberation theology), Latin American liberation theology takes a prophetic stand against the hegemony of the status quo and joins league with other subaltern peoples in the cause of freedom from all forms of subjugation and oppression. The dawn of Latin American liberation theology inaugurated a new era in the global theological landscape.

Author : Arthur F. McGovern
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606088937

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Liberation Theology and Its Critics by Arthur F. McGovern Pdf

From its beginnings, liberation theology has provoked a wide and diverse range of responses from a multitude of critics-theological, methodological, political, ecclesiastical. Liberation Theology and Its Critics is a comprehensive and systematic explication of these diverse criticisms, as well as a reasoned and rigorous defense of liberation theology. McGovern states his aim thus: to understand better the world of Latin America and the culture and conditions which prompt a liberation theology, while at the same time giving expression to some of the misgivings that many US Americans experience when reading about liberation theology. Liberation Theology and Its Critics begins by discussing the place of theology itself in liberation theology. The book offers an historical overview, shows us what liberation theologians see as most distinctive in their work, addresses the biblical interpretations and major areas of theology stressed by liberation theologians, and discusses other theologians' critiques. Next, McGovern explicates the use of social and political analysis in liberation theology, which has been one of the areas of particular controversy. He focuses on such issues as dependency theory, Marxism, class struggle, socialism, and the Nicaraguan revolution, addressing throughout the concerns raised by a range of critics, from the Vatican to Michael Novak. Finally, McGovern explores the role of the church and how liberation theology is lived out in practice. He examines base communities, ecclesiology, current political trends in Latin America, the varying status of liberation theology as well as its most recent developments. McGovern demonstrates that liberation theology encompasses a wide spectrum of theologians with different styles and emphases. It requires careful study, non-polemical debate, and an honest effort to present the views of both liberation theologians and their critics fairly. McGovern's book will be the benchmark against which subsequent work is measured.

Author : Daniel Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134545834

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Liberation Theology after the End of History by Daniel Bell Pdf

Daniel Bell assesses the impact of Christian resistance to capitalism in Latin America, and the implications of theological debates that have emerged from this. He uses postmodern critical theory to investigate capitalism, its effect upon human desire and the Church's response to it, in a thorough account of the rise, failure and future prospects of Latin American liberation theology.

Author : Hussam S. Timani,Loye Sekihata Ashton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030273088

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Post-Christian Interreligious Liberation Theology by Hussam S. Timani,Loye Sekihata Ashton Pdf

This book explores the ideals of liberation theology from the perspectives of major religious traditions, including Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and the neo-Vedanta and Advaita Hindu traditions. The goal of this volume is not to explain the Christian liberation theology tradition and then assess whether the non-Christian liberation theologies meet the Christian standards. Rather, authors use comparative/interreligious methodologies to offer new insights on liberation theology and begin a dialogue on how to build interreligious liberation theologies. The goal is to make liberation theology more inclusive of religious diversity beyond traditional Christian categories.