Avoiding Fundamentalism and Relativism: A Pluralist Lutheran Theology
In this essay I argue that the following defining principles of Luther's theology can support a pluralistic theology of religions that avoids the pitfalls of Christian fundamentalism and postmodernism's debilitating relativism: sola scriptura, extra nos, “In, With, and Under,”“Three Uses o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2012
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Dialog
Year: 2012, Volume: 51, Issue: 4, Pages: 330-337 |
| Further subjects: | B
Sola Scriptura
B Two Realms B and Under B In B the hidden and revealed God B Three Uses of the Law B Theologia Crucis B extra nos B With |
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| Summary: | In this essay I argue that the following defining principles of Luther's theology can support a pluralistic theology of religions that avoids the pitfalls of Christian fundamentalism and postmodernism's debilitating relativism: sola scriptura, extra nos, “In, With, and Under,”“Three Uses of the Law,”“Two Realms,”“the hidden and revealed God,” and theologia crucis. A Lutheran can be a pluralist, too, and in the twenty-first century, ought to be. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6385.2012.00707.x |
