Transfiguring Luther: The Planetary Promise of Luther's Theology - Couverture souple

Westhelle, Vítor

 
9781625642165: Transfiguring Luther: The Planetary Promise of Luther's Theology
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1625642164 ISBN 13 : 9781625642165
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2016

Synopsis

Luther's theology and practice have inspired and continue to inspire so many across confessional and even religious alignments worldwide, or else excite those for whom he displays a coveted, untamed audacity in living out convictions; it is the fabric, the texture that makes Luther a figura with the capability of being transfigured. Luther's theology--his view of language and understanding of creation, incarnation, the cross; his affirmation of freedom from ecclesial, economic, and/or political encroachments; his eschatology, and so forth--is seen in a new light in societies in which modernization does not necessarily mean secularization and the spirit is not set in dual opposition to things material. The dispute as to whether Luther is a late medieval theologian or a beacon of modernity is rendered largely superfluous when the Reformer is read and interpreted in contexts that do not share the peculiar cultural and political history of Europe, its orthodoxies, its pietisms, its enlightenments, and its secularisms. Transfiguring Luther lifts up and presents the significance of the Reformer--his figure as it is transfigured into diverse contexts, absorbing new contents instead of the traditional bastions that are remarkably in tune with the spirit of the Reformation, thus rekindling it.

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À propos de l?auteur

Vitor Westhelle is Professor of Systematic Theology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He is the author of The Scandalous God and an internationally sought-out speaker.

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1625642164
ISBN 13 
9781625642165
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
354
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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gpsr@libri.de

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