Item Type: Book Chapters
CHURCH HISTORY AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY
Kirsi Stjerna "Teaching Spirituality with Medieval Mystics and Luther" In Spirituality: Towards a 21st Century Lutheran Understanding. eds. Stjerna, Kirsi, and Brooks Schramm. Minneapolis: Lutheran University Press 2004 : 163-172A case study: what is “spiritual” – implicitly or explicitly – about teaching these subjects.
An article interpreting the life and contribution of Katharina Luther.
Study of Birgitta of Sweden and Julian of Norwich.
Article introducing feminist critique of traditional God-language.
WORSHIP AND PREACHING
Kirsi Stjerna "First Sunday in Lent" In Abingdon Worship Manual 2004. eds. Mary Schifres and B.J. Beu. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press 2004THEOLOGY
Deanna Thompson "Letting the World Run Free: Luther, Romans, and the Call to Reform" In Reformation Readings of ROmans. T&T Clark 2008This article examines how Luther‘s early theology mines the resources of Romans to advocate for a theology of freedom and how that message reaches the masses more through preaching than his theological treatises.
This chapter is a biography of Martin Luther as seen through the lens of the politics of empire. I suggest that Luther‘s reimagining of religious freedom leads to a theology of resistance with respect to ecclesial and imperial authorities of the day, a theological perspective that unfortunately Luther himself does not always follow.