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Ausgabe:

Dezember/2023

Spalte:

1227-1229

Kategorie:

Dogmen- und Theologiegeschichte

Autor/Hrsg.:

Stjerna, Kirsi

Titel/Untertitel:

Lutheran Theology. A Grammar of Faith.

Verlag:

New York: T&T Clark 2021. 232 S. Kart. US$ 31,45. ISBN 9780567686718.

Rezensent:

Paul R. Hinlicky

If contemporary descendants of the Lutheran tradition which understand themselves to champion progressive causes in contemporary Western (post-)modernity are to sustain any meaningful theological connection to origins in the 16th century Lutheran Reformation, it will be thanks to the effort represented in this book. Yet it is reasonable to wonder whether the effort to remind contemporary progressives of »the rock from which they were hewn, the quarry from which they were dug« will prove quixotic. Moreover, whether the case for a theologically progressive Lutheranism squares with the sources Kirsi Stjerna mines in this book is, at the least, questionable as we shall see.

There is much of merit in S.’s account of the original Lutheran theology as found in the 1580 Book of ...


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