Liberating Lutheran Theology Freedom for justice and solidarity with others in a global context
Paul S. Chung, Ulrich Duchrow, Craig L. Nessan
- U.S.A. Fortress Press 2011
- 292tr. Hardcover 24cm
... 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...
9780800697785
Christian sociology Doctrinal theology Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 -- Theology