Talking About a Gracious God: Speaking of God out of Experience
Talking about a gracious God in a meaningful way calls for a recognition of one's experience. Discovering a gracious God changed Luther's way of doing theology, and demonstrates how Luther's theology was shaped by his experience. Feminist theologians have made a conscious appeal to wo...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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Dialog
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 233-240 |
IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology |
Further subjects: | B
Experience
B Violence against women B Luther's theology of the cross B gracious God B Feminist Theology |
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Summary: | Talking about a gracious God in a meaningful way calls for a recognition of one's experience. Discovering a gracious God changed Luther's way of doing theology, and demonstrates how Luther's theology was shaped by his experience. Feminist theologians have made a conscious appeal to women's experience, particularly their experience of violence within a patriarchal social structure. This particular experience has to shape how we talk about a gracious God to victims/survivors of violence against women. |
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ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/dial.12184 |