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Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the
Protestant Reformation, this book examines the legacy of Martin
Luther in the life, work, and reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the
most widely read modern Lutheran theologian. Framing the
commemoration of the Reformation in conversation with Bonhoeffer's
legacy places much more than Bonhoeffer's connection to Luther at
stake. Given the fraught relationship of the Lutheran Bonhoeffer
with the German Protestant Church under National Socialism, the
question inevitably arises: "What happened to Luther's church in
Germany?" This in turn prompts the question: "How did the
Protestant tradition play out in public life in other nations?" And
these historical issues in turn encourage reflection on a question
that exercised both Luther and Bonhoeffer: "What will be the shape
of the church in the future?" In these pages, an international
group of scholars and practitioners from both church and state
pursues these questions.
Spanning the continents, three internationally respected
theologians demonstrate how the thought and legacy of Martin Luther
can serve in an ecumenical and interfaith context as a resource for
a radical critique of global economics and culture. 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.
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