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The Promise of Martin Luther's Political Theology - Freeing Luther from the Modern Political Narrative (Paperback)
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The Promise of Martin Luther's Political Theology - Freeing Luther from the Modern Political Narrative (Paperback)
Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
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Michael Richard Laffin demonstrates the promise of Martin Luther's
thought for contemporary political theology by showing how Luther
has been over-determined in standard genealogies of modernity which
frequently deafen us to his unique contribution. Laffin argues that
contemporary theologians have typically followed a narrative
derived from the work of a previous generation of political
historians and philosophers, which tend to screen out or distort
the Reformers' contribution to political theory. Common to these
narratives are charges against Luther for his perceived univocal
and nominal ontology resulting in a privatized and spiritualized
Christianity, thus falsely dividing the world into autonomous
spheres. Additionally, the narratives claim that Luther follows in
the wake of voluntarism, leading to an insistence on human
passivity that leaves no room for pagan virtue. Thus, politics is
reduced to an authoritarian imposition of order. In contrast to the
dominant narratives of political modernity, Laffin re-examines
these narratives by focusing on the political significance of areas
in Luther's corpus often neglected in contemporary accounts of his
political thought, especially his commentaries on Scripture and
writings on the sacraments. Attention to these writings brings
forth the crucial themes of the two ecclesiae and the three
institutions. Constructively, these themes are deployed in critical
engagement with contemporary political theology, particularly as
represented in Radical Orthodoxy and the new-Augustinianism.
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