Justified ex nihilo: Retrieving Creation for Theological Anthropology with Luther and Bonhoeffer

This article seeks to articulate a framework for theological anthropology that takes seriously the doctrine of creation, while also remaining christologically grounded and soteriologically informed. Toward this end, I will look briefly at how Martin Luther understands the relationship between justif...

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Main Author: Verhagen, Koert (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2019]
In: International journal of systematic theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 199-216
IxTheo Classification:KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDD Protestant Church
NBD Doctrine of Creation
NBE Anthropology
NBM Doctrine of Justification
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Summary:This article seeks to articulate a framework for theological anthropology that takes seriously the doctrine of creation, while also remaining christologically grounded and soteriologically informed. Toward this end, I will look briefly at how Martin Luther understands the relationship between justification, anthropology and creation, before turning to the way in which Dietrich Bonhoeffer picks up on Luther's tripartite, justification-based definition of the human being. In doing so, Bonhoeffer will help to clarify the essential role that creation plays in grounding and orienting a theological anthropology which seeks to take seriously the soteriological realities of sin and reconciliation.
ISSN:1468-2400
Contains:Enthalten in: International journal of systematic theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/ijst.12364