Other Lutherans

Voices from the Global South

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvLeopoldo A. Sánchez M.,Marcell Silva Steuernagel,Samuel Yonas Deressa,USA) Sanchez M., Professor Leopoldo A. (Concordia Seminary,Leopoldo A. Sánchez M

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A collection of essays voicing “nontraditional” perspectives in Lutheran theology emerging from and for the Global South on a variety of studies and topics.Traditionally, the Lutheran family of churches has been associated historically and geographically with German and Scandinavian peoples and cultures. Yet the largest Lutheran university operates in Brazil and the largest Lutheran churches are now in Ethiopia and Tanzania. A sector of Lutheranism has now become a microcosm of the momentous gravitational shift of Christianity to the Global South, sharing and appropriating in unique ways many of its features, tensions, and negotiations. However, students, teachers, and religious leaders in the West or the Global North are seldom familiar with the voices of seasoned and emerging Lutheran scholars doing theology from and for churches and communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and among the children of the Global South in North America. This lack of familiarity with southern cast Lutheranism leads to little or no integration of its insights and proposals into curriculum and scholarship at universities, seminaries, and other centers of higher learning and continuing education.The essays in this collection seek to fill a gap in studies on the intersection of Global South Christianity and Lutheran ecclesial traditions. Divided into four major areas of research, the chapters introduce western readers to significant contributions of Global South authors writing on Lutheran identity, theological themes, worship and the arts, and missions and society. Using frameworks from fields of study ranging from systematic theology to musicology and from patristics to theologies of migration, authors deal with issues such as confessional commitment, justification and cultural hybridity, religious nationalism, catholicity and migration, public theology amid persecution, devotional modes of theological discourse, the intersection of ritual and justice, the interplay of tradition and innovation in worship, the postcolonial retrieval of African dance in worship, religious pluralism, urban missiology, and human trafficking.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-13
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt787 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor416
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781978711310

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Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. is professor of systematic theology and the Werner R. H. Krause and Elizabeth Ringger Krause Professor of Hispanic Ministries at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri.Samuel Yonas Deressa is associate professor of theology and the Global South, the Fiechtner Chair for Christian Outreach, and director of DCO Program at Concordia University St. Paul, Minnesota.Marcell Silva Steuernagel is associate professor of church music and director of the Master of Sacred Music and Doctor of Pastoral Music Programs at Southern Methodist University.

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: Lutheran Identity1. The Global South Meets North America: Confessional Lutheran Identity in Light of Changing Christian DemographicsLeopoldo A. Sánchez M., Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, US2. Translating the Faith and Confessional Commitment: A Case Study of the Quest for Identity in the Global SouthRoberto E. Bustamante, Seminario El Reformador, Dominican RepublicPart Two: Theological Themes3. Toward an Evangelical Catholic Witness of Justification in Light of the Hybrid Experience of the DiasporaAlberto L. García, Concordia University Wisconsin, US4. Christian Engagement in the Context of Religio-cultural Nationalism: An Interaction with Luther’s Two Realm Theology from a Hinduised Public Square in IndiaSam Thompson, Concordia Seminary Edmonton, Canada5. Mi Casa Es Su Casa: A Lutheran Proposal on Being the Church Catholic in an Age of Migration in Dialogue with Roman Catholic Insights on CatholicityLeopoldo A. Sánchez M., Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, US6. Getting Beyond Lament: Recasting Contemporary Lutheran EschatologyIbrahim S. Bitrus, Taraba State College of Education Zing, NigeriaPart Three: Worship and the Arts7. What Has Ephraim the Syrian to Do with Martin Luther?: Retrieving Syriac Christianity for a Sola Scriptura Church Abjar Bahkou, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, US8. Musical (Re)Localization as Contextual TheologizationMarcell Silva Steuernagel, Southern Methodist University, US9. Human Rights and Divine Rites: African American Sacramental JusticeJohn Arthur Nunes, California Lutheran University, US10. Between Tradition and Renewal: The Case of Lutheran Liturgy in BrazilFabiane B. Luckow, Arts Center of the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil11. The Dancing African Church: Music in the Worship of African ChristianityWilliam O. Obaga, Confessional Lutheran University, CongoPart Four: Missions and Society12. The Shifting Landscape of Lutheranism: Exploring the Rise of African Lutheranism and Its ImplicationsSamuel Y. Deressa, Concordia University St. Paul, US13. The Christian Witness in a Pluralist Context: The Case for a Pedagogical Enterprise Based on the Giftive ParadigmMaximiliano Wolfgramm Silva, Lutheran University of Brazil, Brazil14. For a Church “Close to Home”: Lutheran Ecclesiology and Missions in the Margins of Urban BrazilSamuel R. Fuhrmann, Seminário Concórdia, Brazil15. Theological Reflection on the Trafficking of Ethiopian Immigrant Domestic Workers from a Vocational ApproachEbise Dibisa Ayana, Concordia Seminary, USConclusionIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

The rich collection of essays that make up The Other Lutherans offers a thoughtful and illuminating contribution to the study of Global/World Christianity. Even the book’s title offers a provocative insight, in reminding us that all those “Other” Lutherans - in Africa, Asia, and Latin America - are anything but others and outsiders. Increasingly, they are themselves the global mainstream of the Lutheran tradition, and this wise book explores the implications of that tectonic shift beyond familiar Euro-American boundaries