The Promise of Lutheran Ethics

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Karen L. Bloomquist, John R. Stumme
Fortress Press, 1998 M08 1 - 256 páginas
Here ten Lutheran theologians explore Lutheran emphases, themes, and approaches to offer their account of Christian ethics as a way of life in today's world. Writing in dialogue, they raise foundational concerns of biblical and theological sources and norms, of Christian freedom and responsibility, of call and social witness, of justice and formation in prayer. Then in a lively "Table Talk" the participants discuss and debate the tradition's insights and oversights and show how it might illumine today's burning ethical issues, such as homosexuality.

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Introduction
1
In Todays Context
5
Lutheran Ethics Perennial Themes and Contemporary Challenges
11
The Christians Calling in the World
12
The Churchs Calling in Public Life
17
Contemporary Challenges
27
The Twofold Center of Lutheran Ethics Christian Freedom and Gods Commandments
31
The Modern Theological Impoverishment of Protestant Ethics
33
Conclusion
96
Ethics and the Promise of God Moral Authority and the Churchs Witness
97
Ethical Witness and the Vocation of the Church
98
By What Authority and by What Criteria?
104
Courage and Confidence in Decision and Action
108
In Conclusion
114
Pauline Ethics Congregations as Communities of Moral Deliberation
115
Free Speech and the LetterSpirit Distinction in 2 Corinthians 3
116

Overcoming the Protestant Fallacy by Deconstructing the Modern Concept of Ethics
38
Remembering Luthers Theology of Christian Freedom
40
On the Path of Gods Commandments
44
Gods Commandments and the Natural Law
48
Law and Gospel or Redeemed Life Already and Not Yet
52
The End
53
Practicing Christians Prayer as Formation
55
Formation
58
Luthers ThreeLegged Stool
62
Instruction on a Practice
63
Composing a Way of Life
68
Prayer and Action
69
African American Lutheran Ethical Action The Will to Buid
75
History and Social Location
76
Elements of Ethical Action
77
The African American Ethical Tradition
79
African American Lutheran Ethical Action
83
A Lutheran Response to Racism
90
Implications for a Contemporary Lutheran Ethic
92
Philippians 127218
120
Romans 1215
124
Paul and Lutheran Ethics
128
The Reform Dynamic Addressing New Issues in Uncertain Times
131
What the Tradition Offers Perhaps
132
Some TheologicalEthical Resources Perhaps
134
Conclusion Perhaps
148
A Table Talk on Lutheran Ethics
151
The Distinctiveness of Lutheran Ethics
154
On Retrieving Teaching and Critiquing a Tradition
158
The Role of Scripture in Lutheran Ethics
161
In Addition to Scripture
164
Continuing Deliberations Regarding Homosexuality
168
The Church as a Community of Moral Deliberation
173
Abbreviations
176
Notes
177
Bibliography of Lutheran Ethics
208
Index
241
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Karen L. Bloomquist has served for ten years as Director for Studies in the Division for Church in Society of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She is also Associate Professor of Theology at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa.

John R. Stumme is Director of Studies for the Division for Church in Society, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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