Promise and Persuasion: The Allure of Lutheran Process Theologies

This Co-Sponsored Session between the Open and Relational Theologies Unit and the Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit gathers scholars working at the creative intersection of constructive Lutheran theology and process thought. What might Martin Luther or global Lutheran theological traditions have to do with Alfred North Whitehead? What creative theologies working in this intersection have already emerged over the last century? Is there such a thing as 'Lutheran Process Theology'? How might Lutheran theological motifs like justification, grace, promise, the hidden God, the theology of the cross, Lutheran ethics and more creatively transform in light of process insights into becoming, creative transformation, persuasive love, and relationality?  How might these approaches engage feminist, queer, ecological, and decolonial approaches to God and world? This panel of global scholars engages these questions and imagines new trajectories for global Lutheran thought and embodied practice.