Reformation Reconsidered: Response to Deanna Thompson and Amy Marga

In my response to Profs. Thompson and Marga, I first highlight the theological challenges that both scholars name for theology today and analyze their retrieval of key notions in Luther's works to meet these challenges. In the second part of my response, I reflect on the purpose of theological...

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Main Author: Lösel, Steffen 1966- (Author)
Contributors: Alice Thompson, Deanna (Bibliographic antecedent) ; Marga, Amy 1972- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [2019]
In: Theology today
Year: 2019, Volume: 76, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-144
IxTheo Classification:CH Christianity and Society
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KDD Protestant Church
NCA Ethics
Further subjects:B Eamon Duffy
B Karl Barth
B Digital Age
B Reformation
B Graham Hughes
B Luther
B Feminist Theology
B secular modernity
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Summary:In my response to Profs. Thompson and Marga, I first highlight the theological challenges that both scholars name for theology today and analyze their retrieval of key notions in Luther's works to meet these challenges. In the second part of my response, I reflect on the purpose of theological retrieval and raise historical questions with regard to the purportedly liberating social effects of the Reformation. Finally, I register a theological concern by asking if retrieving the concepts of Christian freedom, neighborly love, justification by faith, and ethics as a secular enterprise, if divorced from their dogmatic moorings in Luther's robust theology of the happy exchange, opens the way for theology's cultural colonization by secular modernity.
ISSN:2044-2556
Reference:Kritik von "The Viral Reformer and the Virtual Body of Christ (2019)"
Kritik von "Martin Luther at the Women's March? (2019)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology today
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0040573619843888