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Essays navigating the social, ethical and theological challenges faced by the Lutheran tradition in today's culturally diverse, post-Christian milieu.
Since the Reformation in the sixteenth century, Lutheran traditions have impacted culture and politics in many societies. At the same time, Lutheran belief has had an effect on personal faith, morality, and ethics. Modern society, however, is quite different from that at the time of the Reformation.
How should we evaluate Lutheran tradition in today's Western multicultural and post-Christian society? Is it possible to develop a Lutheran theological position that can be regarded as reasonable in a society that evidences a considerable weakening of the role of Christianity? What are the challenges raised by cultural diversity for a Lutheran theology and ethics? Is it possible to develop a Lutheran identity in a multicultural society, and is there any fruitful Lutheran contribution to the coexistence of diff erent religious and non-religious traditions in the future?
Since the Reformation in the sixteenth century, Lutheran traditions have impacted culture and politics in many societies. At the same time, Lutheran belief has had an effect on personal faith, morality, and ethics. Modern society, however, is quite different from that at the time of the Reformation.
How should we evaluate Lutheran tradition in today's Western multicultural and post-Christian society? Is it possible to develop a Lutheran theological position that can be regarded as reasonable in a society that evidences a considerable weakening of the role of Christianity? What are the challenges raised by cultural diversity for a Lutheran theology and ethics? Is it possible to develop a Lutheran identity in a multicultural society, and is there any fruitful Lutheran contribution to the coexistence of diff erent religious and non-religious traditions in the future?
Price: $36.95
Pages: 270
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
26 March 2015
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.98 in
ISBN: 9780227175231
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Christianity, RELIGION / Theology, Theology
Contributors
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Remembering the Past-Living the Future -Carl-Henric Grenholm and Göran Gunner
PART ONE: Justification, Atonement, and Reconciliation
2 Promise and Trust: Lutheran Identity in a Multicultural Society -Christoph Schwöbel
3 The Experience of Justification -Christine Helmer
4 Atonement in Theology and a Post-Einsteinian Notion of Time -Antje Jackelén
5 Healing as an Image for the Atonement: A Lutheran Consideration -Cheryl M. Peterson
PART TWO: Lutheran Theology and Ethics in a Post-Christian Society
6 Law and Gospel in Lutheran Ethics -Carl-Henric Grenholm
7 Outside Paradise: Renegotiating Original Sin in Contemporary Lutheran Theology -Eva-Lotta Grantén
8 Lutheran Spiritual Theology in a Post-Christian Society -Karin Johannesson
9 Lutheran Theology and Dialogical Engagement in Post-Christian Society -James M. Childs, Jr.
10 Physicality as a New Model for Lutheran Ethics in a Multicultural Global Community -Richard J. Perry, Jr.
PART THREE: Reformation as a Model for Interpretation of the Present
11 Incarnate vs. Discarnate Protestantism: Martin Luther and the Disembodiment of Faith -Niels Henrik Gregersen
12 Contra Philosophos: The Lutheran Reformation as Critique of the Rationality of Modernity -Knut Alfsvåg
13 Priesthood of all Believers as Public Opinion: An Unexplored Link between the Lutheran Reformation and the Enlightenment? -Urban Claesson
14 Luther's Interpretation of the Magnificat and Latin American Liberation Theology -Elina Vuola
15 "Satis est" (CA 7): The Confessional Unity of the Church and the Augsburg Confession Today -Henning Theißen
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Remembering the Past-Living the Future -Carl-Henric Grenholm and Göran Gunner
PART ONE: Justification, Atonement, and Reconciliation
2 Promise and Trust: Lutheran Identity in a Multicultural Society -Christoph Schwöbel
3 The Experience of Justification -Christine Helmer
4 Atonement in Theology and a Post-Einsteinian Notion of Time -Antje Jackelén
5 Healing as an Image for the Atonement: A Lutheran Consideration -Cheryl M. Peterson
PART TWO: Lutheran Theology and Ethics in a Post-Christian Society
6 Law and Gospel in Lutheran Ethics -Carl-Henric Grenholm
7 Outside Paradise: Renegotiating Original Sin in Contemporary Lutheran Theology -Eva-Lotta Grantén
8 Lutheran Spiritual Theology in a Post-Christian Society -Karin Johannesson
9 Lutheran Theology and Dialogical Engagement in Post-Christian Society -James M. Childs, Jr.
10 Physicality as a New Model for Lutheran Ethics in a Multicultural Global Community -Richard J. Perry, Jr.
PART THREE: Reformation as a Model for Interpretation of the Present
11 Incarnate vs. Discarnate Protestantism: Martin Luther and the Disembodiment of Faith -Niels Henrik Gregersen
12 Contra Philosophos: The Lutheran Reformation as Critique of the Rationality of Modernity -Knut Alfsvåg
13 Priesthood of all Believers as Public Opinion: An Unexplored Link between the Lutheran Reformation and the Enlightenment? -Urban Claesson
14 Luther's Interpretation of the Magnificat and Latin American Liberation Theology -Elina Vuola
15 "Satis est" (CA 7): The Confessional Unity of the Church and the Augsburg Confession Today -Henning Theißen