Love, Life and Politics: Comparing Lutheran and Orthodox Political Theologies
In this essay, I want to engage Luther's political theology by engaging Michael Laffin's recent book, The Promise of Martin Luther's Political Theology. I am fully aware of the debates around Luther's political theology and realize that Laffin's is only one interpretation, b...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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Review of ecumenical studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 257-265 |
| Review of: | The promise of Martin Luther's political theology (London : Bloomsbury, 2016) (Papanikolaou, Aristotle)
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KDD Protestant Church KDF Orthodox Church NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
B Communion B Russian Orthodoxy B Ecclesiology B Human Rights B Zizioulas B Orthodox Theology B Political Theology B Luther B Liberalism |
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| Summary: | In this essay, I want to engage Luther's political theology by engaging Michael Laffin's recent book, The Promise of Martin Luther's Political Theology. I am fully aware of the debates around Luther's political theology and realize that Laffin's is only one interpretation, but it is a very nuanced interpretation that offers compelling arguments. I then want to illustrate affinities between Laffin's interpretation of Luther and my own Orthodox political theology based on the realism of divinehuman communion, or theosis. I then want to end by relating this comparison to what is arguably one of the most pressing questions of Christian political theology - the Christian's relation to political liberalism. |
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| ISSN: | 2359-8107 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of ecumenical studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2478/ress-2018-0019 |
