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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Published in:Review of ecumenical studies, Sibiu
Main Author: Papanikolaou, Aristotle ca. 21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2018]
In: Review of ecumenical studies, Sibiu
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KDD Protestant Church
KDF Orthodox Church
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects: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.
ISSN:2359-8107
Contains:Enthalten in: Review of ecumenical studies, Sibiu
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2478/ress-2018-0019