Liberating Lutheran Theology: Freedom for Justice and Solidarity in a Global Context (Studies in Lutheran History and Theology) - Hardcover

Bloomquist, Karen L.; Chung, Paul S.; Duchrow, Ulrich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0800697782 ISBN 13: 9780800697785

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Chung is Associate Professor of Mission and World Christianity, Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota. His latest work is The Spirit of God Transforming Life (2009).

Ulrich Duchrow is Professor of Theology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. His latest book is Property for People, Not for Profit (2004).

Craig L. Nessan is Professor of Contextual Theology and Academic Dean at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa and author of Give Us This Day: A Lutheran Proposal for Ending World Hunger (2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0800697782
• ISBN 13: 9780800697785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Nessan Craig L.