{"title":"New Frameworks and Perspectives on the ELCA Policy on Interfaith Commitments","authors":"Kayko Driedger Hesslein","doi":"10.1111/dial.12893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12893","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"64 2","pages":"90-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144492845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communion as a Resource to Resist Queer Religious Trauma: Identity and Communio From a Queer, Lutheran Perspective","authors":"Mary Elise Lowe","doi":"10.1111/dial.12881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12881","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the last 20 years, therapists, neuroscientists, clergy, and psychologists have learned a great deal about different forms of trauma and the lasting effects that trauma has on individuals and communities. Recently, attention is being paid to the particular ways that LGBTQIA+ persons experience religious trauma when they are marginalized and vilified within more-conservative Christian faith communities. In this article, I introduce readers to the particular forms of trauma suffered by many queer Christians. Then I propose that a Lutheran approach to Holy Communion may serve as a space, place, and/or ritual where survivors of religiously based anti-queer trauma can find affirmation of identity and deep communion with self, God, and others.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"64 2","pages":"57-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144492780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delighting in Our Neighbors Who Are Non-Religious","authors":"Deanna A. Thompson","doi":"10.1111/dial.12891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12891","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article explores the rapidly increasing reality of religious nones and proposes a way forward beyond Lutheran theological neutrality regarding those who are non-religious. Drawing on the work of Lutheran feminist theologians Kathryn Kleinhans and Elisabeth Gerle, it explores how a Lutheran understanding of self-in-relation alongside the Lutheran vocational call to delight in the neighbor compel us to move beyond the religious/non-religious binary to be opened to new spiritual truths through interpathic relationships with those who are non-religious.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"64 2","pages":"104-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144492553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are We Ready to Move to Theological Celebration?","authors":"Anantanand Rambachan","doi":"10.1111/dial.12892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12892","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"64 2","pages":"107-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144492561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lutherans and Muslims: Listening for the Sake of Clarity","authors":"David D. Grafton","doi":"10.1111/dial.12889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12889","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The 2019 ELCA Declaration of Inter-religious Commitments, like its predecessor the 1991 Declaration of Ecumenical Commitments, set forth broad-based considerations for the engagement of ELCA Lutherans with other religious communities. In this article, I briefly outline how Christians and Muslims stand on important common ground when it comes to the foundations of our calling to care for our world and our neighbors for the common good. However, the Qur'an asks fundamental questions about several classical Christian beliefs: the Trinity, the incarnation, and the crucifixion of Jesus. The Qur'anic claims and Christian responses are not theologically neutral. They are challenging but not necessarily contradictory.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"64 2","pages":"92-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144492977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconstructing Lutheran Theology: Wisdom from the Jewish Faith","authors":"Kirsi Stjerna","doi":"10.1111/dial.12888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12888","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Lutherans have a special responsibility to actively engage with Jewish communities to clear some issues—about the past, about Luther, and then about possible paths forward, and while at it, to learn about and from the Jewish religion today. Some of the central topics deserving ongoing attention and dialogue are: the many meanings of salvation, different approaches to the Scriptures, and the beliefs about Jesus.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"64 2","pages":"96-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144492903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Sexual Ethics Need a Lutheran Critique of Free Will? Luther and the Problem of Consent","authors":"Rebekah Latour","doi":"10.1111/dial.12885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12885","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In recent decades, consent has become a central ethical guideline for navigating sex in a diverse and imperfect world. Increasingly, however, many feminists are charging that consent cannot carry the weight we have asked it to carry. A critical legal criterion, consent has fallen short as an ethic. But what would a sexual ethics beyond consent look like? This paper suggests that the writings of Martin Luther might have something to offer contemporary feminist debates over consent and desire, and, conversely, that contemporary debates in sexual ethics might have something to offer Luther studies. In this paper, I develop a Lutheran critique of consent-based ethics and advocate for a turn from an ethic of choice to an ethic of attention.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"64 2","pages":"70-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144492779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rhetoric of Disability in Reproductive Politics: a Lutheran Response","authors":"Calli Micale","doi":"10.1111/dial.12887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12887","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Disability studies and disabled activists critique involuntary sterilization and prenatal screening as products of the idea that disabled people lack worth. In recent history, proponents of legislation that restricts abortion access argue the reverse. They defend disabled personhood by showing how those with intellectual disabilities contribute to society. Despite competing ends, each claim reinforces associations between human value and a capacity to work. In this essay, I argue that the Lutheran tradition, surprisingly, contains resources to unhitch ethical visions of human dignity from demands for productivity, contribution, and work. Luther's emphases on human dependence, incapacity, and the need for God's help show an affinity with the Disability Justice Movement without undermining demands for bodily autonomy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"64 2","pages":"76-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144492579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Values in Lutheran Social Teaching v. Rights in Dobbs","authors":"Mary J. Streufert","doi":"10.1111/dial.12883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12883","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The reasoning of the court in what is called “the Dobbs decision” is rooted in rights related to the 14<sup>th</sup> Amendment of the US Constitution. A problem from a Lutheran perspective is that the context for the court's majority decision about rights is rooted in a heritage of patriarchy and white supremacy. The values of patriarchy and white supremacy are hierarchy and control, particularly of bodies and reproduction. The result is that Dobbs reinforces limited moral agency and primarily prioritizes flourishing of embryos and fetuses without asking what pregnant neighbors need. The social teaching of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) stands against the Dobbs decision.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"64 2","pages":"64-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144492771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Anthropocene: Construction of Human Agency within Lutheran Eco-Theology","authors":"Hilla Lahtinen","doi":"10.1111/dial.12886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12886","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For several decades, Lutheran theologians have wrestled with the issue of the climate crisis. This has resulted in a body of scholarship that utilizes Christological frameworks to articulate agential constructs. While recognizing such contributions as inherently valuable and highly significant, this article suggests that Lutheran eco-theological research would do well to complement its Christological findings with Pneumatological considerations. Given the problem of anthropocentrism as a key driver of our current, rather troubling, reality, this article argues that Pneumatological considerations are essential in exploring alternative possibilities for the reconceptualization of human agency within Lutheran theological frameworks.</p>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"64 2","pages":"83-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dial.12886","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144492849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}