The Justified Body: Hauerwas, Luther and the Christian Life
Stanley Hauerwas and others argue that Luthers understanding of justification denies the theological and ethical significance of the body. Indeed, the inner, spiritual person is the one who experiences Gods grace in the gospel, while the outer, physical (read: bodily) person continues to live unde...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-78 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology NBM Doctrine of Justification |
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| Summary: | Stanley Hauerwas and others argue that Luthers understanding of justification denies the theological and ethical significance of the body. Indeed, the inner, spiritual person is the one who experiences Gods grace in the gospel, while the outer, physical (read: bodily) person continues to live under law and therefore coercion and condemnation. While not denying that Luther can be so read, I argue that there is another side of Luther, one that recognizes the bodys importance for Christian life. I make this argument through a close reading of Luthers reflections on Adam and Eves Fall in his Lectures on Genesis (1545) and the sacramental theology in Against the Heavenly Prophets. For this Luther, disconnection from our bodies is not a sign of justification but rather the sin from which justification saves us. Accordingly, justification results in a return to embodied creatureliness as the way we receive and live our justification. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946817737928 |