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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Main Author: Arnfríður Guðmundsdóttir 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: 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.
ISSN:1540-6385
Contains:Enthalten in: Dialog
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/dial.12184