Alternative Luther

Lutheran Theology from the Subaltern

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Contributors to this book analyze areas of Martin Luther’s and Lutheran theology that have otherwise been neglected or underrepresented in the five hundred years since the Reformation. They constructively widen the scope of Luther and Lutheran theology by viewing both from the perspectives of the “subaltern,” those whose voices are barely or rarely heard. The book formulates an inclusive Lutheran theology that reaches out but does not close out. The book’s sections address “Precarious Life,” from Luther’s own precarious existence as an outlaw under a death sentence to other precarious life situations seen from various Lutheran perspectives; “Body and Gender,” addressing different aspects of gender and sexuality from new angles; “Women and Sexual Abuse,” focusing on present-day problems of abuse in an encounter with Luther’s exegesis of biblical “texts of terror”; and “Economy, Equality, and Equity,” addressing Lutheran views on economy and equality that break new ground regarding common goods and the Anthropocene.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-09-18
Mått160 x 229 x 32 mm
Vikt730 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareMusimbi Kanyoro
ISBN9781978703810

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Foreword Musimbi KanyoroList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Else Marie Wiberg PedersenSection 1: Precarious Life1.Luther as the Subaltern Precarious: The Banned, Excluded, and Outlawed Eleutherius Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen2.Luther against Luther: Freedom Theology and anti-Jewish exegesisKirsi Stjerna3.Eschata, the Kin-dom of God in a Time of Presentism, Patriarchy, and Neo-Nationalism: Writing back to Luther through Hannah Arendt and Judith ButlerElisabeth Gerle4.Theology Behind the WallPeter Lodberg5.The Heterotopic Creation: A Short Contribution to a Subaltern EcclesiologyTrygve WyllerSection 2: Body and Gender6.A Word of the Word for Our Hearts: Embracing Multiple-Gendered God-Language with LutherMary Streufert7.The Queer Body-Mind in Luther’s Theology: From Subaltern Sodomite to Embodied Imago DeiMary Elise Lowe8.Manly Women, Feminine Men: Mere Exceptions or Signs of Inclusive Thinking? Alternative Readings of Martin Luther’s AnthropologySini Mikkola9.Wi

Editor Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen introduces this excellent collection of articles by explaining that the aim of the volume “is to widen the scope of Luther’s and Lutheran theology by discussing Luther and Lutheran theology as perceived from the perspective of the subaltern, those who are never or rarely heard. The hope is to reach both those often ignored and those by whom they are ignored.” The book does just this. . . While there is, of course, an ethical imperative to listen to our neighbor for our neighbor’s sake, these essays make it clear that this listening will expand our own understanding and help us work towards common goods for more people and more of creation. . . . The eighteen essays in this book are all valuable, each putting forward a new center for the reader, putting forward a new group that might have previously been considered “other” or “subaltern." . . However the reader sees herself, she will find new insight, new neighbors, and new understanding by reading The Alternative Luther.