Liberating Lutheran Theology <subTitle>Freedom for justice and solidarity with others in a global context</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Chung, Paul S.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1958-</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">9:5</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Fortress Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>292tr.</extent> <extent>Hardcover</extent> <extent>24cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>... 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...</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Paul S. Chung, Ulrich Duchrow, Craig L. Nessan</note> <subject> <topic>Christian sociology</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Doctrinal theology</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 -- Theology</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">230.0464</classification> <classification authority="ddc">P324-C56</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780800697785</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/12797/1.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/12797/1.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071157.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>