Doctrine of Scripture in Lutheran Theology—Its Missional Thrust: A Response to Lamin Sanneh's Hein‐Fry Lecture 20081 |
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| Authors: | Winston Persaud |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Winston D. Persaud is Professor of Systematic Theology at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. His publications include: The Theology of the Cross and Marx's Anthropology. A View from the Caribbean (Peter Lang, 1991);2. “The Bible and God's Mission,” in Lutheran Study Bible (Augsburg Fortress, 2009), 1547–1552;3. “Lutheran Theology and Postcolonial Caribbean: Theological Themes in Context,” in The Future of Lutheranism in a Global Context, eds. Arland Jacobson and James Aageson (Augsburg Fortress, 2008), 79–90;4. “Luther's Small and Large Catechisms: Defining and Confessing Christian Faith from the Centre in a Religiously Plural World,” in Dialog (Winter 2007), 355–362. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract : In this article, I argue that Lutheran doctrine of Scripture is rooted in a christological centre, a centre that is coherent with Lamin Sanneh's thesis that the missionary experience must encompass both the work of the missionary who comes from ‘outside’ and, more especially, the reflections of the ‘indigenous’ peoples on Scripture in its witness to God's coming in Jesus Christ. This essential mutuality of ‘receiving’ and ‘giving’ in reading Scripture christologically undercuts imperial biblical hermeneutical practices that privilege certain cultures, languages, ethnic, racial, and class groupings as bearers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. |
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| Keywords: | christological centre Augsburg Confession Articles IV and VII fluid boundaries Lutheran vocation justification Scripture and missionary experience |
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