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Research paper thumbnail of Women as wives and rulers in Martin Luther's theology

Dialog

This article offers a theological analysis of Martin Luther's complex view on women and their... more This article offers a theological analysis of Martin Luther's complex view on women and their role in society, focusing on his exposition of the narratives of creation and fall in the Lectures on Genesis. Luther's understanding of women is defined by an ostensible paradox. On the one hand, Luther claims that all women are equal to men in relation to God and hold the power to rule over the earth, which they execute as leaders of the household. On the other hand, Luther passes on a traditional view of women being of a weaker nature and argues that wives have to subordinate to their husbands. I interpret this understanding of women as an outcome of Luther's theological anthropology based on his doctrine of justification. Men and women are equal as priests and kings in relation to God and authorized to manage their relationship with him, to teach and pray for others, and to disobey authority that interferes with this faith relation. As sinners, though, they must submit to au...

Research paper thumbnail of “Honor Your Father And Mother” The Influence of Honor on Martin Luther’s Conception of Society

Lutheran Theology and the shaping of society, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of A communion of saints? Reincorporating sinners into the created order of eighteenth-century Denmark through catechetical practice

Pietismus und Neuzeit Band 45 – 2019, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Trust and Protestantism: Has Lutheran Theology Influenced the Trust Culture Sustaining the Scandinavian Welfare States?

Journal of Historical Sociology, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Soli Deo honor et gloria – the Concepts of Honour and Glory in the Theology of the Young Martin Luther

Anthropological Reformations - Anthropology in the Era of Reformation, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of “Through Sin Nature Has LostIts Confidence in God” – Sin and Trust as Formative Elementsof Martin Luther’s Conception of Society

Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 2018

This article explores how sin and trust as fundamental notions of Luther’s relational anthropolog... more This article explores how sin and trust as fundamental notions of Luther’s relational anthropology determine his understanding of social relations unfolding in the hierarchies of the earthly realm. Against scholastic works righteousness, Luther maintains that humans are absolute sinners incapable of justifying themselves through good works and receive faith as a gift of unconditional trust in God. This reformulation of the human relation to God has profound consequences for Luther’s understanding of interpersonal relations. Luther understands the justifying relation to God as a precondition for fruitful and trusting social relations in a world infused by sin. Moreover, Luther patterns his understanding of the hierarchic relations between subjects and their earthly authorities on the trusting relation between God and human beings. However, because of sin individuals need to subject themselves to superiors. In this way, Luther’s understanding of the human being as both righteous and s...

Research paper thumbnail of Forord

Aarhus University Press eBooks, Nov 12, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Pietistic influence on societal development in 18th century Scandinavia

Pietismus und Neuzeit Band 45 – 2019, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of “Ich Werdend Spreche Ich Du”: Creative Dialogue in the Relational Anthropologies of Martin Luther and Martin Buber

Religions

This article compares the relational anthropologies of Martin Luther and Martin Buber and suggest... more This article compares the relational anthropologies of Martin Luther and Martin Buber and suggests that both thinkers presuppose a notion of creative dialogue. This notion captures the understanding in the Hebrew Bible of the world as created and sustained through God’s utterance and, thus, of reality as spoken and human existence as reliant upon dialogue with God. It argues that this common grounding led Luther and Buber to suggest anthropologies that focus on relation rather than substance, on the role of language, and on creative dialogue as the kernel of sound interpersonal relationships, which articulate the human relationship with God. The perception of reality as constituted through dialogical relationships made them both question the prevailing philosophical ontology of their time: in Luther’s case, Aristotelean substance ontology, and in Buber’s case, Kantian subject–object dualism.

Research paper thumbnail of Trusting in God and His Earthly Masks: Exploring the Lutheran Roots of Scandinavian High‐Trust Culture

Journal of Historical Sociology, 2020

Trusting in God and his earthly masks: Exploring the Lutheran roots of Scandinavian high-trust cu... more Trusting in God and his earthly masks: Exploring the Lutheran roots of Scandinavian high-trust culture

Research paper thumbnail of “Seeking Refuge in God against God”: The Hidden God in Lutheran Theology and the Postmodern Weakening of God

Open Theology, 2018

Martin Luther emphasizes the affective experience of the living God rather than God as an abstrac... more Martin Luther emphasizes the affective experience of the living God rather than God as an abstract, metaphysical idea. Luther explains this experience of God by distinguishing between God as Deus absconditus in his hidden majesty and God as Deus revelatus suffering on the cross. According to Luther, sinners experience the hidden God as a terrifying presence causing them to suffer. Through faith, however, sinners are able to recognize that this wrathful God is one with the God of love and mercy revealed in Christ. Based on this paradoxical understanding of God, Luther admonishes Christians to seek refuge in God against God. In recent decades, Luther’s accentuation of the revealed God has inspired postmodern philosophers and theologians in their efforts to recast the notion of God in light of the Nietzschean outcry on the death of God and Heidegger’s critique of ontotheology. Hence, John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo have weakened the notion of an omnipotent God in favour of an anti-me...

Research paper thumbnail of Når Gud angriber mennesket – Den tvetydige erfaring af Gud og verden hos Martin Luther, K.E. Løgstrup og Regin Prenter

Research paper thumbnail of Skaber- eller menneskeværk Skabelse, historie og tradition som førkulturelle fænomener hos K.E. Løgstrup og Regin Prenter

Research paper thumbnail of Skaber- eller menneskeværk Skabelse, historie og tradition som førkulturelle fænomener hos K.E. Løgstrup og Regin Prenter

Research paper thumbnail of Dannelse til relationsstyrke i familie og samfund

Det skal kendes. Dannelse som kommunal vej og vision, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Women as wives and rulers in Martin Luther's theology

Dialog

This article offers a theological analysis of Martin Luther's complex view on women and their... more This article offers a theological analysis of Martin Luther's complex view on women and their role in society, focusing on his exposition of the narratives of creation and fall in the Lectures on Genesis. Luther's understanding of women is defined by an ostensible paradox. On the one hand, Luther claims that all women are equal to men in relation to God and hold the power to rule over the earth, which they execute as leaders of the household. On the other hand, Luther passes on a traditional view of women being of a weaker nature and argues that wives have to subordinate to their husbands. I interpret this understanding of women as an outcome of Luther's theological anthropology based on his doctrine of justification. Men and women are equal as priests and kings in relation to God and authorized to manage their relationship with him, to teach and pray for others, and to disobey authority that interferes with this faith relation. As sinners, though, they must submit to au...

Research paper thumbnail of “Honor Your Father And Mother” The Influence of Honor on Martin Luther’s Conception of Society

Lutheran Theology and the shaping of society, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of A communion of saints? Reincorporating sinners into the created order of eighteenth-century Denmark through catechetical practice

Pietismus und Neuzeit Band 45 – 2019, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Trust and Protestantism: Has Lutheran Theology Influenced the Trust Culture Sustaining the Scandinavian Welfare States?

Journal of Historical Sociology, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Soli Deo honor et gloria – the Concepts of Honour and Glory in the Theology of the Young Martin Luther

Anthropological Reformations - Anthropology in the Era of Reformation, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of “Through Sin Nature Has LostIts Confidence in God” – Sin and Trust as Formative Elementsof Martin Luther’s Conception of Society

Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 2018

This article explores how sin and trust as fundamental notions of Luther’s relational anthropolog... more This article explores how sin and trust as fundamental notions of Luther’s relational anthropology determine his understanding of social relations unfolding in the hierarchies of the earthly realm. Against scholastic works righteousness, Luther maintains that humans are absolute sinners incapable of justifying themselves through good works and receive faith as a gift of unconditional trust in God. This reformulation of the human relation to God has profound consequences for Luther’s understanding of interpersonal relations. Luther understands the justifying relation to God as a precondition for fruitful and trusting social relations in a world infused by sin. Moreover, Luther patterns his understanding of the hierarchic relations between subjects and their earthly authorities on the trusting relation between God and human beings. However, because of sin individuals need to subject themselves to superiors. In this way, Luther’s understanding of the human being as both righteous and s...

Research paper thumbnail of Forord

Aarhus University Press eBooks, Nov 12, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Pietistic influence on societal development in 18th century Scandinavia

Pietismus und Neuzeit Band 45 – 2019, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of “Ich Werdend Spreche Ich Du”: Creative Dialogue in the Relational Anthropologies of Martin Luther and Martin Buber

Religions

This article compares the relational anthropologies of Martin Luther and Martin Buber and suggest... more This article compares the relational anthropologies of Martin Luther and Martin Buber and suggests that both thinkers presuppose a notion of creative dialogue. This notion captures the understanding in the Hebrew Bible of the world as created and sustained through God’s utterance and, thus, of reality as spoken and human existence as reliant upon dialogue with God. It argues that this common grounding led Luther and Buber to suggest anthropologies that focus on relation rather than substance, on the role of language, and on creative dialogue as the kernel of sound interpersonal relationships, which articulate the human relationship with God. The perception of reality as constituted through dialogical relationships made them both question the prevailing philosophical ontology of their time: in Luther’s case, Aristotelean substance ontology, and in Buber’s case, Kantian subject–object dualism.

Research paper thumbnail of Trusting in God and His Earthly Masks: Exploring the Lutheran Roots of Scandinavian High‐Trust Culture

Journal of Historical Sociology, 2020

Trusting in God and his earthly masks: Exploring the Lutheran roots of Scandinavian high-trust cu... more Trusting in God and his earthly masks: Exploring the Lutheran roots of Scandinavian high-trust culture

Research paper thumbnail of “Seeking Refuge in God against God”: The Hidden God in Lutheran Theology and the Postmodern Weakening of God

Open Theology, 2018

Martin Luther emphasizes the affective experience of the living God rather than God as an abstrac... more Martin Luther emphasizes the affective experience of the living God rather than God as an abstract, metaphysical idea. Luther explains this experience of God by distinguishing between God as Deus absconditus in his hidden majesty and God as Deus revelatus suffering on the cross. According to Luther, sinners experience the hidden God as a terrifying presence causing them to suffer. Through faith, however, sinners are able to recognize that this wrathful God is one with the God of love and mercy revealed in Christ. Based on this paradoxical understanding of God, Luther admonishes Christians to seek refuge in God against God. In recent decades, Luther’s accentuation of the revealed God has inspired postmodern philosophers and theologians in their efforts to recast the notion of God in light of the Nietzschean outcry on the death of God and Heidegger’s critique of ontotheology. Hence, John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo have weakened the notion of an omnipotent God in favour of an anti-me...

Research paper thumbnail of Når Gud angriber mennesket – Den tvetydige erfaring af Gud og verden hos Martin Luther, K.E. Løgstrup og Regin Prenter

Research paper thumbnail of Skaber- eller menneskeværk Skabelse, historie og tradition som førkulturelle fænomener hos K.E. Løgstrup og Regin Prenter

Research paper thumbnail of Skaber- eller menneskeværk Skabelse, historie og tradition som førkulturelle fænomener hos K.E. Løgstrup og Regin Prenter

Research paper thumbnail of Dannelse til relationsstyrke i familie og samfund

Det skal kendes. Dannelse som kommunal vej og vision, 2023