Beyond Deep Incarnation: Rethinking Christology in Radical Lutheran Terms. (September 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Peterson, Daniel J.
• Is Part Of: Dialog. Volume 53:Number 3(2014:Sep.)
• Page Start: 240
• Page End: 249
• Publication Date: 2014-09
• Subjects: Theology -- Periodicals; 230.41
• DOI: 10.1111/dial.12121
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0012-2033

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>This article takes the demise of Christendom and what Diana Butler Bass calls the end of religion as its point of departure for a "radical" rethinking of God in fully kenotic terms. It rejects any vestige of otherworldly transcendence as a temptation to escapism, inviting us instead to seek God's complete presence among us here in the world. Going beyond Niels Gregersen's understanding of the deep incarnation of the <italic>Logos</italic> and starting instead with a complete commitment to the <italic>infra‐Lutheranum</italic>, the author presents a radical Lutheran theology that embraces a total kenosis of God whose liberating and life‐giving reappearance we must find implicit among us in unexpected places, not least of which might include the embers of a dying church or the crumbling of our religious institutions.</p> </abstract>