Soli Deo honor et gloria – the Concepts of Honour and Glory in the Theology of the Young Martin Luther

Stopa, Sasja Emilie Mathiasen

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“…This process entails an exchange of attributes, a so‐called ‘happy exchange’, between Christ and the Christian, whereby the latter partakes in Christ's righteousness, love, freedom, life and glory, whereas the former receives sin, death, and the like (cf. Stopa, 2021, pp. 123–136).…”

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Women as wives and rulers in Martin Luther's theology

Stopa

2023

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This article offers a theological analysis of Martin Luther's complex view on women and their role in society, focusing on his exposition of the narratives of creation and fall in the Lectures on Genesis. Luther's understanding of women is defined by an ostensible paradox. On the one hand, Luther claims that all women are equal to men in relation to God and hold the power to rule over the earth, which they execute as leaders of the household. On the other hand, Luther passes on a traditional view of women being of a weaker nature and argues that wives have to subordinate to their husbands. I interpret this understanding of women as an outcome of Luther's theological anthropology based on his doctrine of justification. Men and women are equal as priests and kings in relation to God and authorized to manage their relationship with him, to teach and pray for others, and to disobey authority that interferes with this faith relation. As sinners, though, they must submit to authority to suppress sin. Both men and women exercise authority through their gender-specific callings in the earthly hierarchies, which constitute God's created order. However, women have to subordinate to their husbands in order to suppress sin. The article discusses whether this complex view on women promoted patriarchal social structures or whether the freedom and equality of the spiritual realm over time filtered through to the role of women in society, paving the way for their liberation.

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“…With his claim that honor and dignity define men, Luther seems to refer to the gender‐specific social status connected with public offices held by men in the late medieval society (cf. Stopa, 2021, pp. 66–76).…”

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Women as wives and rulers in Martin Luther's theology

Stopa

2023

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“…In his theological anthropology, Luther depicts humans as relational beings who receive their existence outside of themselves in relation to God and neighbor (Stopa, 2021a(Stopa, , 2021b. Whereas present-day relational anthropology conceives of individuals as horizontally determined by their various social relations, for Luther, the basis for human existence is the vertical relation to God.…”

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“…In the article "'Honor your father and mother': The influence of honor on Martin Luther's conception of society," I show how Luther interprets the Fourth Commandment "to honor your father and mother" to concern every hierarchical relationship between subjects and superiors in the earthly realm, and explain these relationships as characterized by obedient trust and loving care (Stopa, 2018a(Stopa, , 2018bcf. ;Stopa, 2021aStopa, , 2021b. Historian Nina Koefoed has analyzed the influence of Luther's understanding of the Fourth Commandment on seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Danish society, stressing the role of the household as an epicenter of Lutheran confessional culture (Koefoed, 2018).…”

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“…* *Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa is a postdoctoral researcher in systematic theology at Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 3, 8000 Aarhus C. Stopa wrote her PhD thesis, Soli Deo Honor et Gloria: Honour and Glory in the Theology of Martin Luther ( Stopa, 2021a, 2021b), in the field of Luther research. Her postdoctoral research concerns the influence of Lutheran theology on Danish societal development and focuses on concepts of sin and trust.…”

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Trusting in God and His Earthly Masks: Exploring the Lutheran Roots of Scandinavian High‐Trust Culture

Stopa¹

2020

J Historical Sociology

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In recent years, the high level of trust among Scandinavians in general and Danes in particular has attracted considerable international interest. The article unearths the rooting of Danish trust culture in Lutheran soil arguing for the influence of Lutheran theology and social teaching on Danish society from the Reformation onwards as a key to understanding its historical background. It identifies central social imaginaries of trust in Luther's work and trace their impact on eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Danish Lutheran confessional culture by analyzing texts written by the influential theologians Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764) and Niels Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783–1872).

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2019

Scandinavian Journal of History

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Soli Deo honor et gloria – the Concepts of Honour and Glory in the Theology of the Young Martin Luther

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Women as wives and rulers in Martin Luther's theology

Women as wives and rulers in Martin Luther's theology

Trusting in God and His Earthly Masks: Exploring the Lutheran Roots of Scandinavian High‐Trust Culture

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