{"id":1024,"date":"2010-08-23T16:11:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T23:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2010-08-23T16:13:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T23:13:34","slug":"world-level-luther-scholar-on-key-ecumenical-questions-jddj-and-leuenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"World-level Luther Scholar on Key Ecumenical Questions:  JDDJ and Leuenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having dedicated much of his life to ecumenical exchange within Christendom through leadership at the <em>Konfessionkundliches Institut des Evangelisches Bundes<\/em> in Bensheim,<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> [Professor Hans-Martin] Barth forthrightly examines how <strong>Luther<\/strong> also clarifies the contributions that his latter-day adherents can make to ecumenical conversation.\u00a0 He notes that the <strong><em>Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification<\/em><\/strong> of 1999 stands on <strong>\u201cuneven ground\u201d<\/strong> because <strong>Roman Catholics do not regard it as foundational<\/strong> for the church\u2019s existence, whereas, Barth affirms, <strong>\u201cthe true church finds its identity in the message of justification\u201d<\/strong> (253, cf. 294).\u00a0 He also points to the fact that \u201cthe <strong>Leuenberg Concord<\/strong> of 1973 indeed <strong>diminished the tensions<\/strong> between Reformed and Lutheran understanding [of the Lord\u2019s Supper], <strong>without being able to solve [these tensions] theologically\u201d<\/strong> (324).<a href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"12\"><br \/><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>The center for ecumenical scholarship\u00a0of the Protestant churches in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><em>Lutheran Quarterly<\/em> 24:2 (2010)\u00a0196, in a review by Robert Kolb of Hans-Martin Barth, <em>Die Theologie Martin Luthers. Eine kritische W\u00fcrdigung.<\/em> G\u00fctersloh:G\u00fctersloher Verlagshaus, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having dedicated much of his life to ecumenical exchange within Christendom through leadership at the Konfessionkundliches Institut des Evangelisches Bundes in Bensheim,[1] [Professor Hans-Martin] Barth forthrightly examines how Luther also clarifies the contributions that his latter-day adherents can make to ecumenical conversation.\u00a0 He notes that the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification of 1999 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}