Truth-Telling and Other Ecclesial Practices of Resistance

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 sacramental theology, and in some cases, redefines them.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Ecclesial Practices of Resistance
Christine Helmer
Chapter 2. Taking Responsibility for Truth: Ecclesial Practices in an Age of Hypocrisy
Jan-Olav Henriksen
Chapter 3. Embodying Truth in Ecclesial Practices
Allen G. Jorgenson
Chapter 4. Telling the Truth about Doctrine: Justification and Justice
Christine Helmer
Chapter 5. Complicity and the Christological Path of Ecclesial Resistance: Summons to a New Catechesis for a Time of Despair
Paul R. Hinlicky
Chapter 6. Lutheran Ecclesiologies of Resistance: Starting with the Spirit
Cheryl M. Peterson
Chapter 7. Resisting Tyranny and Polarization: An Ecclesiology of Word and Sacrament from the Midwestern Heartland
Amy Carr
Chapter 8.Creation Piety and Spiritual Formation
Gordon J. Straw
Chapter 9. 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
Chapter 10. Practicing Jesus Christ in Public, Embodying Resistance
Craig L. Nessan
Chapter 11. Seelsorge for Those Who Resist
Timothy L. Seals

About the author

Edited by Christine Helmer - Contributions by Amy Carr; Christine Helmer; Jan-Olav Henriksen; Allen G. Jorgenson; Paul R. Hinlicky; Craig L. Nessan; Cheryl M. Peterson; Timothy L. Seals; Gordon J. Straw and Man Hei Yip

Product details

• Authors: Christine Helmer
• Assisted by: Christine Helmer (Editor), Helmer Christine (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781978712096
• ISBN: 978-1-978712-09-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ecclesiology, RELIGION / Christianity / Lutheran, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Christian social thought & activity, Religious social & pastoral thought & activity, Lutheran Churches