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Cross in Tensions: Luther’s Theology of the Cross as Theologico-Social Critique is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this text, Philip Ruge-Jones maps the power relationships that Luther’s theology addressed and turns to specific works that challenge established structures of his world. Ruge-Jones explores how Luther’s Latin texts undermine the ideological assumptions and presumptions that bolstered an opulent church and empire, how Luther uses the cross of Christ to challenge what he called volatilem...

death. Contemplating the death of Christ necessarily becomes a dying together with him.48 In this understanding, revelation is always hidden or concealed. The confidence with which church officials point to a historical institution and claim it as the empirical church only exposes their theology of glory. The theology of the cross stands against all such claims to glory and power achieved in God’s name. Faith knows another way. “To believe means to live in constant contradiction of empirical reality
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