Truth-telling and other ecclesial practices of resistance / edited by Christine Helmer.
In this book leading American Lutheran theologians address the ways in which Christian communities might be mobilized for embodied works of resistance against systemic injustices in our times, and examine how the call to resistance reframes classic Lutheran doctrinal commitments to truth and sacrame...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham,Maryland :
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic,
[2021]
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| Physical Description: | vii, 194 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Ecclesial practices of resistance / Christine Helmer
- Taking responsibility for truth: ecclesial practices in an age of hypocrisy / Jan-Olav Henriksen
- Embodying truth in ecclesial practices / Allen G. Jorgenson
- Telling the truth about doctrine: justification and justice / Christine Helmer
- Complicity and the christological path of ecclesial resistance: summons to a new catechesis for a time of despair / Paul R. Hinlicky
- Lutheran ecclesiologies of resistance: starting with the Spirit / Cheryl M. Peterson
- Resisting tyranny and polarization: an ecclesiology of word and sacrament from the Midwestern heartland / Amy Carr
- Creation piety and spiritual formation / Gordon J. Straw
- Remembering the immigrant experience: the body of Christ as a borderless space to embrace our shared humanity in the face of rising xenophobia / Man Hei Yip
- Practicing Jesus Christ in public, embodying resistance / Craig L. Nessan
- Seelsorge for those who resist / Timothy L. Seals.