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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...

Gerhard Ebeling has not only written pervasively on the theology of the cross, but has also dominated current Luther scholarship in general to such an extent that he has set its paradigm. Within the area of Luther interpretation, Ebeling’s ruts run deep, and many interpretative vehicles have traveled in the direction that he has established. In his important book Luther: An Introduction to his Thought54 Ebeling identifies the dynamics fundamental to Luther’s
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