The Other Lutherans (eBook, PDF)

Voices from the Global South
Redaktion: Sánchez M., Leopoldo A.; Deressa, Samuel Yonas; Steuernagel, Marcell Silva

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216258094
• Artikelnr.: 75985564

Autorenporträt

Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. is professor of systematic theology and the Werner R. H. Krause and Elizabeth Ringger Krause Professor of Hispanic Ministries at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. Samuel Yonas Deressa is associate professor of theology and the Global South, the Fiechtner Chair for Christian Outreach, and director of DCO Program at Concordia University St. Paul, Minnesota. Marcell Silva Steuernagel is associate professor of church music and director of the Master of Sacred Music and Doctor of Pastoral Music Programs at Southern Methodist University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Lutheran Identity
1. The Global South Meets North America: Confessional Lutheran Identity in
Light of Changing Christian Demographics
Leopoldo A. Sánchez M., Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, US
2. Translating the Faith and Confessional Commitment: A Case Study of the
Quest for Identity in the Global South
Roberto E. Bustamante, Seminario El Reformador, Dominican Republic
Part Two: Theological Themes
3. Justification in the Borderlands Toward an Evangelical Catholic Witness
of Justification in Light of the Hybrid Experience of the Diaspora
Alberto L. García, Concordia University Wisconsin, US
4. Christian Engagement in the Context of Religio-cultural Nationalism: An
Interaction with Luther's Two Realm Theology from a Hinduised Public Square
in India
Sam Thompson, Concordia Seminary Edmonton, Canada
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
Leopoldo A. Sánchez M., Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, US
6. Getting Beyond Lament: Recasting Contemporary Lutheran Eschatology
Ibrahim S. Bitrus, Taraba State College of Education Zing, Nigeria
Part Three: Worship and the Arts
7. What Has Ephraim the Syrian to Do with Martin Luther?: Retrieving Syriac
Christianity for a Sola Scriptura Church
Abjar Bahkou, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, US
8. Musical (Re)Localization as Contextual Theologization
Marcell Silva Steuernagel, Southern Methodist University, US
9. Human Rights and Divine Rites: African American Sacramental Justice
John Arthur Nunes, California Lutheran University, US
10. Between Tradition and Renewal: The Case of Lutheran Liturgy in Brazil
Fabiane B. Luckow, Arts Center of the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
11. The Dancing African Church: Music in the Worship of African
Christianity
William O. Obaga, Confessional Lutheran University, Congo
Part Four: Missions and Society
12. The Shifting Landscape of Lutheranism: Exploring the Rise of African
Lutheranism and Its Implications
Samuel Y. Deressa, Concordia University St. Paul, US
13. The Christian Witness in a Pluralist Context: The Case for a
Pedagogical Enterprise Based on the Giftive Paradigm
Maximiliano Wolfgramm Silva, Lutheran University of Brazil, Brazil
14. For a Church "Close to Home": Lutheran Ecclesiology and Missions in the
Margins of Urban Brazil
Samuel R. Fuhrmann, Seminário Concórdia, Brazil
15. What Are We Called To Do? Theological Reflection on the Trafficking of
Ethiopian Immigrant Domestic Workers from a Vocational Approach
Ebise Dibisa Ayana, Concordia Seminary, US
Conclusion
Index
About the Editors and Contributors