Justification in a post-Christian society / [manuscript] /

Justification in a post-Christian society / [manuscript] / edited by Carl-Henric Grenholm and Gr̲an Gunner. - Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, c2014. - xii, 258 p ; 23 cm. - Church of Sweden Research Series ; 8 . - Research series (Svenska kyrkan) ; no. 8. .

Essays from the conference "Remembering the past-living the future" held in Uppsala, 2013. The conference's papers and lectures resulted in this volume and a second titled Lutheran identity and political theology.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Introduction: Remembering the past--living the future / Carl-Henric Grenholm and Gr̲an Gunner -- Part one: Justification, atonement, and reconciliation. 2. Promise and trust: Lutheran identity in a multicultural society / Christoph Schwb̲el -- 3. The experience of justification / Christine Helmer -- 4. Atonement in theology and a post-Einsteinian notion of time / Antje Jackelň -- 5. Healing as an image for the atonement: a Lutheran consideration / Cheryl M. Peterson -- Part two: Lutheran theology and ethics in a post-Christian society. 6. Law and gospel in Lutheran ethics / Carl-Henric Grenholm -- 7. Outside paradise: renegotiating original sin in contemporary Lutheran theology / Eva-Lotta Grantň -- 8. Lutheran spiritual theology in a post-Christian society / Karin Johannesson -- 9. Lutheran theology and dialogical engagement in post-Christian society / James M. Childs, Jr. -- 10. Physicality as a new model for Lutheran ethics in a multicultural global community / Richard J. Perry, Jr. -- Part three: Reformation as a model for interpretation of the present. 11. Incarnate vs. discarnate Protestantism: Martin Luther and the disembodiment of faith / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- 12. Contra philosophos: the Lutheran Reformation as critique of the rationality of modernity / Knut Alfsvḡ -- 13. Priesthood of all believers as public opinion: an unexplored link between the Lutheran Reformation and the Enlightenment / Urban Claesson -- 14. Luther's interpretation of the Magnificat and Latin American liberation theology / Elina Vuola -- 15. "Satis est" (CA 7): the confessional unity of the Church and the Augsburg Confession today / Henning Theissen.

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Lutheran Church--Doctrines.
Justification (Christian theology)

BT764.2 / .J88 2014

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