Penultimate Answers: Lutheran Theology, Politics, and Dissent
November 2004: The Political Election (Volume 4 Issue 11)
[1] A basic difficulty in the application of Lutheran theological insights to the current political scene is the fundamentally static nature of much of Luther’s thinking about the relationship of state and citizen. That is, Luther’s political writings focus much more narrowly upon the duties and powers of temporal authority in general and the individuals […]