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This collection of essays stages a dialogue between Friedrich
Schleiermacher and Alfred North Whitehead on significant features
of 'open' system. The volume offers new options for rehabilitating
system for future theological and philosophical thinking by opening
system to a flexible relation with changing reality. Key
ingredients for system are discussed in three areas of contact
between Schleiermacher and Whitehead. One such ingredient concerns
historical precedents figuring crucially in Western systematic
philosophy. Another feature is the systematic categorization of
experience that relates epistemology, metaphysics, and the
empirical sciences. System is also brought to bear on pressing
contemporary issues, such as ethics and religious pluralism.
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 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 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.
Christians in the United States and around the world are
politically polarized today, unable to speak to one another across
deep divisions regarding urgent social issues. Ordinary Faith in
Polarized Times: Justification and the Pursuit of Justice addresses
this dire reality by offering a theological framework for Christian
justice-seeking. Amy Carr and Christine Helmer draw on Paul's
theology to center the idea of justification by faith in Christ as
the primary ground of Christian belonging and community.This
approach yields a theology of ordinary faith that resists the
temptation to equate Christian identity with the performance of a
heroic "here I stand" posture against moral and political positions
felt to be inimical to a properly Christian life. An ordinary faith
situates Christian identity on a baptismal belonging to Christ.
Baptism draws Christians into the messy process of discerning
together the shape of justice in and through the Beloved Community.
With justification by faith as the touchstone of Christian unity,
Ordinary Faith in Polarized Times reveals how Christians who
inhabit different ethical and political positions can navigate the
disorientations and reorientations that arise when they debate what
justice-seeking looks like from within the body of Christ. Carr and
Helmer articulate ways that justification by faith grounds
Christian practices of affective listening and storytelling, even
on the most contentious ethical questions today, with the hope that
mutual conversation in and through the Beloved Community can get
Christians who disagree oriented towards each other again for the
good of the world.
More akin to science than to art, biblical interpretation eats its
dead--consigning its past heroes to oblivion once new paradigms
have passed them by. The history of the field has emerged as a
separate discipline, and the question pondered by theologians and
philosophers here is whether that history has merit of its own, or
serves merely as raw ma
One Scripture or Many? proposes a novel understanding of canon that
reaches beyond the text to the reality of tradition. This new
approach to biblical theology takes up major questions concerning
the unity of the canon. Its thesis is bold: canon is both text and
tradition. As text, the canon is the product of a history of
formation; its unity is ascribed by subsequent generations
interpreting the text. As tradition, its fundamental openness to
diverse interpretations is the function of a subject behind the
text that holds together the tradition's unity. Yet open-endedness
does not mean an absence of determinacy. Hermeneutical,
theological, and philosophical parameters are given in order to
maintain a unity at one level that does not exist between ideas
conflicting on another level. These parameters are constituted
through the relationship between text, reality, and experience. On
the one hand, these parameters are embedded in the text. On the
other hand, they are inextricably linked to reality because they
themselves reflect experiences of that reality. The
interdisciplinary approach in this book draws on scholarship in the
Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament, philosophy,
and theology. Both Jewish and Christian scholars conclude that the
search for the canon is an open-ended process of interpretation.
Questions of the canon's unity find their niche in a new concept of
biblical theology that presupposes the theological and
philosophical relevance of biblical texts. As conceived in
religious categories, experience and reality are themes already
available in scripture. Whether one or many, scripture addresses
these questions for our time.
This book is about the crisis brought about by doctrine's
estrangement from reality--that is from actual lives, experiences,
histories, and from God. By invoking "the end of doctrine,"
Christine Helmer opens a new discussion of doctrinal production
that is engaged with the challenges and possibilities of modernity.
The end of doctrine refers on the one hand to unquestioning
doctrinal reception, which Helmer critiques, and on the other,
represents an invitation to a new way of understanding the aim of
doctrine in deeper connection to the reality that it seeks.
The book's first section offers an analysis of the current
situation in theology by reconstructing a trajectory of Protestant
theology from the turn of the twentieth century to today. This
history focuses primarily on the status of the word in theology and
explains how changes in theology in the context of the political
and social crisis in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s led to a
distancing of the word from reality. Helmer then turns to the
constructive section of the book to propose a repositioning of
theology to the world and to God. Helmer's powerful work will
inspire revitalized interest in both doctrine and theological
inquiry itself.
This volume makes a distinctive contribution to the upcoming 500th
anniversary of Luthers reformation by looking back to the previous
centennial in 1917 and tracing forward the enduring impact of the
questions raised by Lutheran scholars then to contemporary research
in religious studies, history, and theology. The great flourishing
of interest in Luthers religious experience and thought in Berlin
at the turn of the twentieth century was known as the
Lutherrenaissance, an extraordinarily generative moment of
scholarly creativity within the Lutheran tradition. Thinkers such
as Holl, Harnack and Otto took up questions that would reverberate
throughout twentieth century religious and theological inquiry, on
the nature of history, for instance, dialectical theology, and the
question of mysticism in religious experience. The
Lutherrenaissance also planted the seeds of a political theology
that contributed to the alliance of Lutheran theologians with
National Socialism. Contributors to this volume, attentive to both
to the rich contributions of the Lutherrenaissance and its darker
consequences, open an unprecedented conversation across the
century. Then and now, the study of religion and theology were in
periods of transition; then and now, scholars were working at the
very foundations of the various disciplines of religious inquiry
across the social sciences and humanities. Contributors aim to
bring the critical insights of that period to bear on key questions
in the study of religion and theology today, with particular
attention to the global context within which present day scholars
work. It exemplifies new perspectives in Luther scholarship today,
the rich and fertile grounds of the Lutheran tradition, in its
engagement with unprecedented global circumstances.
Martin Luther was classically orthodox. Scholars often portray
Luther as a heroic revolutionary, totally unlike his peers and
forebears--as if he alone inaugurated modernity. But is this
accurate? Is this even fair? At times this revolutionary model of
Luther has come to some shocking conclusions, particularly
concerning the doctrine of the Trinity. Some have called Luther
modalist or tritheist--somehow theologically heterodox. In The
Trinity and Martin Luther Christine Helmer uncovers Luther's
trinitarian theology. The Trinity is the central doctrine of the
Christian faith. It's not enough for dusty, ivory tower academics
to know and understand it. Common people need the Trinity, too.
Doctrine matters. Martin Luther knew this. But how did he
communicate the doctrine of the Trinity to lay and learned
listeners? And how does his trinitarian teaching relate to the
medieval Christian theological and philosophical tradition? Helmer
upends stereotypes of Luther's doctrine of the Trinity. This
definitive work has been updated with a new foreword and with fresh
translations of Luther's Latin and German texts.
No story has been more foundational to triumphalist accounts of
Western modernity than that of Martin Luther, the heroic
individual, standing before the tribunes of medieval
authoritarianism to proclaim his religious and intellectual
freedom, Here I stand! How Luther Became the Reformer returns to
the birthplace of this origin myth, Germany in the late nineteenth
century, and traces its development from the end of World War I
through the rise of National Socialism. Why were German
intellectualsespecially Protestant scholars of religion, culture,
and theologyin this turbulent period so committed to this version
of Luthers story? Luther was touted as the mythological figure to
promote the cultural unity of Germany as a modern nation; in the
myths many retellings, from the time of the Weimar Republic
forward, Luther attained world-historical status. Helmer finds in
this construction of Luther the Reformer a lens through which to
examine modernitys deformations, among them anti-Judaism,
anti-Semitism, and anti-Catholicism. Offering a new interpretation
of Luther, and by extension of modernity itself, from an ecumenical
perspective, How Luther Became the Reformer provides resources for
understanding and contesting contemporary assaults on democracy. In
this way, the book holds the promise for resistance and hope in
dark times.
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The projected thirty-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its
Reception (EBR) is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide to
the current state of knowledge on the background, origins, and
development of the canonical texts of the Bible as they were
accepted in Judaism and Christianity. Unprecedented in breadth and
scope, this encyclopedia also documents the history of the Bible's
interpretation and reception across the centuries, not only in
Judaism and Christianity, but also in literature, visual art,
music, film, and dance, as well as in Islam and other religious
traditions and new religious movements. The EBR is also available
online. Further information on The Bible and Its Reception ."
This volume offers a unique approach to the history of biblical
interpretation, examining the historical, theological, and
philosophical presuppositions of select interpreters in order to
tease out the complexity of factors that shape one's engagement
with biblical texts. Taking seriously the power of biblical texts
to shape and address questions common to all humanity, these essays
not only provide a window into how the biblical text was read at
specific times and places and but also suggest fruitful ways to
read it today. Contributions in both English and German focus on
biblical interpretation in Hellenistic Judaism and early
Christianity, nineteenth-century German philosophy, and
contemporary biblical theology. The contributors are Harold
Attridge, Wilhelm Grab, Stephan Gratzel, Garrett Green, Christine
Helmer, Bernd Janowski, Maren Niehoff, Joachim Ringleben, Marvin
Sweeney, and Karen Torjesen. Paperback edition is available from
the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
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