Luther and Liberation

<p>With the approach of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's inauguration of the Protestant Reformation and the burgeoning dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans opened under Pope Francis this new edition of Walter Altmann's<b> Luther and Liberation </b>is timely and relevant. <b>Luther and Liberation </b>recovers the liberating and revolutionary impact of Luthers theology read afresh from the perspective of the Latin American context. Altmann provides a much-needed reassessment of Luther's significance today through a direct engagement of Luther's historical situation with an eye keenly situated on the deeply contextual situation of the contemporary reader giving a localized reading from the author's own experience in Latin America. The work examines with fresh vigor Luther's central theological commitments such as his doctrine of God Christology justification hermeneutics and ecclesiology and his forays into economics politics education violence and war. This new edition greatly expands the original text with fresh scholarship and updated sources footnotes and bibliography and contains several additional new chapters on Luther's doctrine of God theology of the sacraments his controversial perspective on the Jews and a new comparative account with the Latin American liberation theology tradition.</p>