Vitor Westhelle

Cross Narratives

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Embodied Cross

Theology

“Embodied Cross is a commendable work of carrying contextual theologies to an intercontextual challenge . . . This is a work that explores uncharted territories with insightfulness and a theological disposition to meet difference as difference in a 'third place.' The book is a momentous contribution to studies of Lutheran theology in a global context.”

Essays from the Margins

Theology

“Rivera-Pagan's keen theological perspicacity is at its best in this critical and unswerving history that goes from biblical times to sixteenth-century West Indies and twenty-first-century West Bank, reclaiming the memory of the oppressed, the voices of the silenced, and the promises from the margins. This is a rousing read for candid historians and audacious theologians eager to not only learn from and combat tyranny past and present, but also embody liberative transfigurations.”

Luther and Liberation

Theology

“This substantially enlarged second edition of Luther and Liberation calls for a celebration. Not only it comes along with the commemorations of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, but more importantly it is an outstanding accomplishment of Luther research done in the global south as it becomes the home for the majority of Lutherans worldwide. The meticulously elaborated content attests to the brilliant aptitude of the author in Luther studies and original research. Altmann's thought-provoking reading sets Luther in enriching and mutually critical conversation with liberation theology in an ecumenical spirit, as it also liberates Luther from his captivity in the ivory tower of recalcitrant and fossilized academics. The book adeptly explicates the theology of Luther and reveals facets of the reformer often overlooked or neglected.”

Luther's Revolution

Theology

“Luther's Revolution is a provocative and evocative challenge to those who view Luther as someone who distanced himself from revolutionary politics. Montover offers a compelling and well-documented reading of the political implications of the early Luther's foray into the caste system of the medieval church's conception of the priesthood. His contention is that Luther's call for the universal priesthood of all believers entails not only an ecclesial reformation but a conscientious yet radical subversion of dominant territorial politics and entitlements of the time.”

Making Sense of the Hebrew Bible

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Mending the World?

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Mending the World? offers a timely, honest, and meaningful conversation on the trials and promises of religious pluralism from a global perspective. Calling for a culture enriched by a transparent encounter with the other, this collection comes at a most opportune time for addressing the challenges posed by the growing entrenchment of religious, racial, and nationalistic ideologies. Now is the time this book needs to be read.”

Passionate Embrace

Theology

“Lund ethicist Elisabeth Gerle's enchanting voice comes as a gift to the North American public. Gerle recovers Luther's truly original theological genius in bringing to the fore the implications of the Reformer's view of God in the passions of the flesh. This work liberates love, body, and sensuality from a discipline that for too many a century entrapped theological dogmas, perverting into sins of the flesh the loving sensuous fervors of the body. With the help of Luther's theological incarnational turn, eroticism receives its proper place in theological language. This book fills a long-standing lacuna. Passionate Embrace is indeed most embraceable.”

Prayer as Memory

Philosophy

“Prayer as Memory is an astute and foundational essay in theologia prima. By bringing together the contrasting, contemporary philosophical scenarios and the theological insights of the likes of Barth and Metz, this book is an eloquent elucidation of prayer as an apocalyptic genre that offers a theoretical frame and practical guidance to understand and engage a devotional life. This book deserves praise for daring originality, interdisciplinary acumen, and pastoral relevance.”

Seeing-Remembering-Connecting

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“A manifesto for a public church to be in and for the world! Combining political and liberation theologies with ecumenical insights and a Lutheran pugnacity, this book transcontextually subverts our seeing, elicits remembering to transfigure our memory, and inspires connecting to bring about transformation. Weaving her own experiences with a prophetic theological voice, Bloomquist issues a call for the church to be faithful to God's great 'occupy' movement: the incarnation.”

Songs as Locus for a Lay Theology

Theology

“A truly original and remarkable accomplishment. This book recovers and writes the scores of hymns that oral tradition has kept for over a century in Kerala, India. The ancient ecclesial principle that the rule of piety determines the content of what is believed (lex orandi, lex credendi) finds here superb and diligent treatment.”

The Churches and Democracy in Brazil

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

The Mexican Reformation

History & Biography

“The Mexican Reformation is an informative and compelling narration of the amalgamation of the history of Mexico and the religious reformation that ensued from the encounter and hybridization (castizaje) of cultures and traditions sans a defined genealogy. Cruz's fascinating account offers the reader the history of an autochthonous Protestant reformation unfettered by the sixteenth century's European events, while simultaneously sharing some of its characteristic traits as an event of protest and protestation.”

Toward a Better Worldliness

Theology

“"With an incisive cut into the core of the debate on the nature of the gift in the Protestant tradition, Terra Schwerin Rowe offers an unapologetic and hearty argument with youthful élan for reading grace in a new key that vigorously engages ecological responsibility and denounces Protestant theological complacency with the economic order. This book summons theology to work for a better world; it is a must for those who care.””

Two Reformers

Theology

“Of Two Reformers it can be said that a daring thesis is half of an accomplishment. The reader gets the audacity already in the cover, and the other half of the accomplishment in the pages that follow, in a remarkable journey of recovering the political meaning of theological and ecclesial protest. Caryn Riswold's book finds a way of bringing together voices of dissent in the utter dissonance of the contexts of two thinkers that theology cannot afford to ignore or read apart from the political causes they in common espoused and from their frailty in the struggles they shared.”