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In this book, leading American Lutheran theologians, inspired by
the Scandinavian emphasis on theology as embodied practice, ask how
Christian communities might be mobilized for resistance against
systemic injustices. They argue that the challenges we confront
today as citizens of the United States, as a species in relation to
all the other species on the planet, and as members of the body of
Christ require an imaginative reconceptualization of the inherited
tradition. The driving force of each chapter is the commitment to
truth-telling in naming the church's complicity with social and
political evils, and to reorienting the church to the truth of
grace that Christianity was created to communicate. Contributors
ask how ecclesial resources may be generatively repurposed for the
church in the world today, for church-building grounded in Christ
and for empowering the church's witness for justice. The authors
take up the theme of resistance in both theoretical and pragmatic
terms, on the one hand, rethinking doctrine, on the other,
reconceiving lived religion and pastoral care, in light of the
necessary urgencies of the time, and bearing witness to the God
whose truth includes both justice and hope.
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Jesus' Life in Dying (Paperback)
Friedrich Schleiermacher; Translated by Iain G. Nicol, Allen G. Jorgenson
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Jesus' Life in Dying (Hardcover)
Friedrich Schleiermacher; Translated by Iain G. Nicol, Allen G. Jorgenson
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Awe and Expectation charts new territory in exploring the
intersection of theology and stewardship. Theologians, ministers,
and lay members of the church will find in this book material to
fuel their imaginations as they rethink the role of stewardship in
a post-Christendom church. Starting with sacrament and ending with
word, Awe and Expectation surveys how a theology of stewardship
illumines those core activities that define the church and how
these same practices shape the contours of stewardship. It
encourages Christians to understand the explosive potential of
stewardship both within and beyond the walls of the church. This
book will enable Christians to see the world in Awe and Expectation
as Stewards of the Gospel.
The title of this book plays upon the central place a theology of
the cross holds in Lutheran theologies, especially potent in
Luther's Heidelberg Disputation (1518). The 500th anniversary of
this document coincided with the 70th anniversary of the
Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations wherein the
preamble points to a global aspiration of a common good shaped by
freedom, justice and peace. This book is located at the
intersection of these two themes, asserting that the cross has
material content in being the means by which Christ in suffering
solidarity with individuals, communities, and the cosmos advances
freedom, justice, and peace. Employing a variety of methods, and
exploring a broad range of geographic locales, the contributors
illumine the misuse of Reformation themes and offer a corrective in
service of a common good that is publicly accountable and
theologically sound. The book thereby explores how contemporary
Lutheran theology has utility both for analyzing injustice and for
advancing justice in local as well as global contexts.
In Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue, Allen G.
Jorgenson asks what Christian theologians might learn from
Indigenous spiritualties and worldviews. Jorgenson argues that
theology in North America has been captive to colonial conceits and
has lost sight of key resources in a post-Christendom context. The
volume is especially concerned with the loss of a sense of place,
evident in theologies written without attention to context. Using a
comparative theology methodology, wherein more than one faith
tradition is engaged in dialogical exploration, Jorgenson uses
insights from Indigenous understandings of place to illumine
forgotten or obstructed themes in Christianity. In this
constructive theological project, "kairotic" places are named as
those that are kenotic, harmonic, poetic and especially
enlightening at the margins, where we meet the religious other.
Christian Theology after Christendom: Engaging the Thought of
Douglas John Hall brings together contemporary thinkers to engage
and build upon Douglas John Hall's work-and to take up his
challenge to reclaim a contextual and de-colonizing theology of the
cross as a means to speak to the realities of life and faith today.
With a focus on contemporary issues, this edited collection
critically analyzes and deconstructs the centuries-old colonial
triumphalism of Christian theology and the church in the West. This
book seeks to frame present day crises in ways that honor a deeply
rooted theologia crucis that does not colonize the "other." It
explores constructive decolonizing possibilities for Christian
theology at the end of Christendom.
In this book, leading American Lutheran theologians, inspired by
the Scandinavian emphasis on theology as embodied practice, ask how
Christian communities might be mobilized for resistance against
systemic injustices. They argue that the challenges we confront
today as citizens of the United States, as a species in relation to
all the other species on the planet, and as members of the body of
Christ require an imaginative reconceptualization of the inherited
tradition. The driving force of each chapter is the commitment to
truth-telling in naming the church's complicity with social and
political evils, and to reorienting the church to the truth of
grace that Christianity was created to communicate. Contributors
ask how ecclesial resources may be generatively repurposed for the
church in the world today, for church-building grounded in Christ
and for empowering the church's witness for justice. The authors
take up the theme of resistance in both theoretical and pragmatic
terms, on the one hand, rethinking doctrine, on the other,
reconceiving lived religion and pastoral care, in light of the
necessary urgencies of the time, and bearing witness to the God
whose truth includes both justice and hope.
In Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue, Allen G.
Jorgenson asks what Christian theologians might learn from
Indigenous spiritualties and worldviews. Jorgenson argues that
theology in North America has been captive to colonial conceits and
has lost sight of key resources in a post-Christendom context. The
volume is especially concerned with the loss of a sense of place,
evident in theologies written without attention to context. Using a
comparative theology methodology, wherein more than one faith
tradition is engaged in dialogical exploration, Jorgenson uses
insights from Indigenous understandings of place to illumine
forgotten or obstructed themes in Christianity. In this
constructive theological project, "kairotic" places are named as
those that are kenotic, harmonic, poetic and especially
enlightening at the margins, where we meet the religious other.
Christian Theology after Christendom: Engaging the Thought of
Douglas John Hall brings together contemporary thinkers to engage
and build upon Douglas John Hall's work-and to take up his
challenge to reclaim a contextual and de-colonizing theology of the
cross as a means to speak of the realities of life and faith today.
With a focus on contemporary issues, this collection of essays
critically analyzes and deconstructs the centuries-old colonial
triumphalism of Christian theology and the church in the West. This
edited collection seeks to frame present day crises in ways that
honor a deeply rooted theologia crucis that does not colonize the
"other." It explores constructive decolonizing possibilities for
Christian theology at the end of Christendom.
Contributors to this book analyze areas of Martin Luther’s and
Lutheran theology that have otherwise been neglected or
under-represented in the five hundred years since the Reformation.
They widen the scope of Luther and Lutheran theology by viewing
both from the perspectives of the “subaltern,” those whose
voices are barely or rarely heard. The book formulates an inclusive
Lutheran theology that reaches out but does not close out. The
book’s sections address “Precarious Life,” from Luther’s
own precarious existence as an outlaw under a death sentence;
“Body and Gender,” addressing different aspects of gender and
sexuality; “Women and Sexual Abuse,” focusing on Luther’s
exegesis of biblical “texts of terror”; and “Economy,
Equality, and Equity,” addressing Lutheran views on economy and
equality that break new ground regarding common goods and the
Anthropocene.
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