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The Other Lutherans
Voices from the Global South
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The Other Lutherans
Voices from the Global South
About this book
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.
This collection studies 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.
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.
This collection studies 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Lutheran Identity
- Chapter 1: The Global South Meets North America: Confessional Lutheran Identity in Light of Changing Christian Demographics
- Chapter 2: Translating the Faith and Confessional Commitment: A Case Study of the Quest for Identity in the Global South
- Part II: Theological Themes
- Chapter 3: Justification in the Borderlands: Toward an Evangelical Catholic Witness of Justification in Light of the Hybrid Experience of the Diaspora
- Chapter 4: Engaging Religio-Cultural Nationalism: An Interaction with Luther’s Two-Realm Theology from a Hinduized Public Squa e in India
- Chapter 5: 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 Catholicity
- Chapter 6: Getting Beyond Lament: Recasting Lutheran Contemporary Eschatology
- Part III: Worship and the Arts
- Chapter 7: What Has Ephraim the Syrian to Do with Martin Luther?: Retrieving Syriac Christianity for a Sola Scriptura Church
- Chapter 8: Musical (Re)Localization as Contextual Theologization
- Chapter 9: Human Rights and Divine Rites: African American Sacramental Justice
- Chapter 10: Between Tradition and Renewal: The Case of Lutheran Liturgy in Brazil
- Chapter 11: The Dancing African Church: Music in the Worship of African Christianity
- Part IV: Missions and Society
- Chapter 12: The Shifting Landscape of Lutheranism: Exploring the Rise of African Lutheranism and Its Implications
- Chapter 13: The Christian Witness in a Pluralist Context: The Case for a Pedagogical Enterprise Based on the Giftive Paradigm
- Chapter 14: For a Church “Close to Home”: Lutheran Ecclesiology and Missions in the Margins of Urban Brazil
- Chapter 15: What Are We Called To Do?: Theological Reflection on the Trafficking of Ethiopian Immigrant Domestic Workers from a Vocational Approach
- Conclusion
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors