A disillusioned Martin Luther was losing his faith until he experienced freedom of conscience with the gospel of grace that he found from his un-authorized re-reading of the Scriptures. This experience stimulated Luther's desire to free the Christian religion from teachings that could burden the human soul. In doing so, he offered a grammar for a Christian theology that is both mystical and liberating. Kirsi Stjerna here offers a contemporary reading of Luther's vision of a religion that is guided by concerns for freedom. Her study first considers Luther's understanding of the profound tension in human experience as simultaneously broken and holy; and second, how he aimed to orient Christians to live with freedom from despair via the security found in being grounded in God. Offering a critical reading of Luther's central insights and teachings, Stjerna invites readers to engage with Luther's story and contemplate the relevance of his theology in contemporary discourse on religion.
Jürgen Moltmann’s
Theology of Hope
was a pioneering work which recentered the Christian faith on its hope for the resurrection of the body and the transformation of the world, and how this revolutionizes life in the here and now. In this article, I argue that Christian veganism can be understood as a theology of...
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Volker Schlöndorff’s film The Ninth Day (2004) presents for cultural remembrance a story loosely based on Father Jean Bernard’s short furlough from the Dachau concentration camp during the Second World War, as told in his memoir Priestblock 25487. The film functions as a distinctive site of memory that reveals the dema...
Christians of all theological and political backgrounds ought to be ardent advocates of advancing, not curbing, freedom of speech within their own ranks and in the increasingly secular societies in which they live. Christians, Free Expression, and the Common Good presents the concept of free expression, and its opposit...
This article takes the oeuvre of Syrian intellectual Farah Antun (1874–1922) as an entry point into the vexed relationship between religion, historicity, and the secular. Although it is true that Antun's concept of religion bore the unmistakable marks of European Christian heritage, the article seeks to illustrate so...
Henry Clements· Comparative Studies of South...· 0 citations
This article contends that religion remained central to understanding ‘nationalism’ in Britain and India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This proposition will be demonstrated in concrete form through reading, and cross-reading, three interpretations of the Revolt of 1857: John Kaye’s A History of the S...
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