Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit
The State of Lutheran Thought and Scholarship: For the June virtual meeting, our Unit plans to organize a pre-arranged session of editors and authors of important recent books in Lutheran theology and scholarship on Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions. This session seeks to give an account of the current state of scholarship on current Lutheran thought. What does it mean to write scholarship on Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions today? What are common emergent themes and concerns? What unique contributions or ethical difference does Lutheran analysis make? What are the horizons of Lutheran thought and why?
This Unit seeks to provide an avenue for a comprehensive conversation on both Lutheran history and thought in the global context. In so doing, it is able to draw on an immensely rich tradition that goes far beyond Lutheran parochial interests as it includes the relationship to other Christian traditions as well as cultures in the global South.