Coram Deo: Human Life in the Vision of God: 58 (Princeton Theological Monograph)

Description: In order to adequately address the issues of atonement and christology we must understand how it is that we think about the relationship between God and the human being. The way in which we understand and interpret the life and death of Jesus and his role within that relationship then impacts our theology of the sacraments particularly the eucharist. Further the questions continue to confront and be confronted by my inescapable identity as a Lutheran Christian. I use the term inescapable because I find myself working from and with theologies and theologians that are unabashedly critical of patriarchal religious doctrine and paternal theological construction yet I cannot be convinced that the tradition which formed me is irretrievable or irrelevant. . . . I am seeking to use Luther as one of my sources but I am working to reinterpret him and offer a more adequate constructive alternative that embodies what is useable in his tradition. I find the potential for a liberating message within Christian theology and I find a critical theological resource in Luther. --from the Introduction About the Contributor(s): Caryn D. Riswold is Assistant Professor of Religion at Illinois College. She is the author of the forthcoming Two Reformers: Martin Luther and Mary Daly as Political Theologians.