Luther refracted
Subtitle: the reformer's ecumenical legacy
By: Piotr J. Małysz and Derek R. Nelson, editors
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781451490381; 9781506401478
Subjects: Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: Luther Refracted speaks to the currency that Luther's life and thought continue to enjoy in today's Christian reflection. The contributors, representing a variety of Christian denominations, demonstrate Luther's lasting impact on their own traditions and, together with the Lutheran respondents, encourage a fresh understanding of the Reformer. In their at times vigorous engagement, Luther's legacy comes to light not only as variously received but also as contradicted, and transformed, only to reemerge as a fruitful leaven for further thought and transformation. All the essays presented here witness to Luther's significance as a formidable doctor ecclesiae, a teacher of the church.
Notes: Essays, first presented at an Ecumenical Luther conference, held at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Catholic encounters with Martin Luther  -- Jared Wicks, SJ; title: Spirituality, ontology, and the church: a response to Jared Wicks  -- Piotr J. Małysz; title: "The" vs. "all": Baptist appropriations and distortions of Martin Luther's universal priesthood  -- Brian C. Brewer; title: Angels of light: Luther's liturgical attack on Christendom  -- Matthew Myer Boulton; title: Exocentric ministry and worship: a response to Brian Brewer and Matthew Boulton  -- Derek R. Nelson; title: Martin Luther's Deus theologicus  -- David Tracy; title: Much ado about nothing: the necessary non-sufficiency of faith  -- Matt Jenson; title: Is faith really a gift?: a response to David Tracy and Matt Jenson  -- Ted Peters; title: "Return to your baptism daily": baptism and Christian life  -- Susan K. Wood; title: "Every one must fight his own battle with death by himself, alone": what this Episcopalian learned from Martin Luther  -- Randall C. Zachman; title: The threat of death, the promise of baptism, and the vocational form of justification: a response to Susan Wood and Randall Zachman  -- Ian A. McFarland; title: Luther's principle of sola scriptura in recent ecumenical discussion  -- Johannes Zachhuber; title: Learning from Luther: Reformed appropriations and differentiations  -- Anna Case-Winters; title: Scripture as matrix, Christ as content: a response to Johannes Zachhuber and Anna Case-Winters -- Paul R. Hinlicky.