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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...

takes place in that one place where human beings would not think to look for the reality of God: in the cross. How odd! For the Disputation makes clear what is visible in the cross where there is “nothing else to be seen than disgrace, poverty, death and everything that is shown us in the suffering Christ.”25 Who would look for God in this wasteland of poverty? Yet, precisely under the form of suffering God wills to reveal Godself. Loewenich follows Luther in calling attention to this revelation
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