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Title The forgotten Luther. III, Reclaiming a vision of global community / Conrad A. Braaten and Ryan P. Cumming, editors
Published Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (98 pages)
Contents Introduction : A new heaven and a new earth / Paul Wee, Conrad A. Braaten -- The immigrant Luther : domestic servant or prophet of social justice? / Carter Lindberg -- Reclaiming a vision of global community / Ishmael Noko -- Reclaiming the gospel legacy : voices from the global South / Paul Wee -- And though this world with devils filled : reshaping the world in hope / Mitri Raheb -- Polarization in our parishes, societies, and world today : can Luther help? / Karen L. Bloomquist -- When politics fails and disappoints : citizenship formation and the role of the church / Guillermo Hansen -- Martin Luther for the life of the church / Rafael Malpica Padilla
Summary "This study book, the third in the Forgotten Luther series, invites congregations, with the help of five prominent church leaders and Luther scholars, to consider the new shape of global mission in today's world.Against the growing disparity in wealth and the rising tide of economic refugees throughout the world, this book reflects on Luther's largely forgotten social and economic reforms (to overcome poverty, lack of health care, illiteracy, and old-age insecurity) that flowed from the central doctrine of justification by grace through faith. The book is also a call for informed engagement with partner churches in a critical area of ministry that is frequently neglected. This study book draws global implications from Luther's reforms and from the theology that shaped them. It is informed by ways in which churches in the Global South have moved beyond world-denying forms of pietism to address the systemic causes of hunger, poverty, and injustice. It is addressed to the whole church at a critical time in history as vast threats to the natural world converge with acute economic hardship for hundreds of millions of people."--Publisher
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 18, 2021)
Subject Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 -- Theology
SUBJECT Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 fast
Subject Mission of the church.
Mission of the church
Theology
Form Electronic book
Author Braaten, Conrad A., editor
Cumming, Ryan P., editor.
ISBN 1506466923
9781506466927
Other Titles Reclaiming a vision of global community