Luther Research and Ecumenism |
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| Authors: | Theodor Dieter |
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| Affiliation: | Dr. Theodor Dieter is Research Professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg (France) and also Director of the Institute. He studied Protestant Theology and Philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen. He is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical‐Lutheran Church in Württemberg. He received his Ph.D. from Tübingen 1991 and received the Habilitation in Tübingen in 1998. He published Der junge Luther und Aristoteles, Berlin‐New York: de Gruyter, 2001 and several articles on questions of Luther's theology, Lutheran theology, ecumenical theology, social ethics. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract : The article discusses the fundamental conceptual problems underlying the ecumenical vocabulary. These problems result from issues present available in academic studies that often aim at emphasizing the great divide between Luther and medieval theology, as well as providing a justification for the specific and distinctive characteristics of Lutheran theology. The author aims at overcoming the problematic confessionalism which results from these conceptual presuppositions. |
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| Keywords: | ecumenism fundamental theology scholasticism confessionalism |
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