Dialog
Volume 56, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 244-250

Lutheran subjectivity and costly neighbor love in secular Sweden: Confronting the refugee crisis through alethurgy (Article)

Thompson D.A.*
  • a Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, United States

Abstract

This article offers a constructive Lutheran theology that challenges the hegemony of secular Sweden, particularly in light of challenges posed by the current global refugee crisis. The author uses Guillermo Hanson’s creative rethinking of Lutheran subjectivity to highlight a radical embodied vision of neighbor love. Retrieving Luther’s claim that Muslims and Christians worship the same God, the article concludes with proposals for alethurgic practices that wed neighbor love to acknowledgement of a common God. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals and Dialog, Inc.

Author Keywords

Secularism Luther Islam Refugee Subjectivity

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028709590&doi=10.1111%2fdial.12335&partnerID=40&md5=918f35cd0cbfb527c8ff9a54895877e7

DOI: 10.1111/dial.12335
ISSN: 00122033
Original Language: English