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Luther and Gender: Shifts in Paradigms and Orientations
Author(s) -
Stjerna Kirsi I.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12319
Subject(s) - martin luther , instinct , narrative , context (archaeology) , sociology , ideology , absolute (philosophy) , gender studies , epistemology , philosophy , theology , aesthetics , history , linguistics , political science , law , archaeology , evolutionary biology , politics , biology
Considering the tenderness and detail with which Luther attends to matters “all about Eve” in his Genesis lectures—and how he treats the matriarchs in the Genesis narrative—we can say that gender and women constitute a central interest for the reformer. He developed, in his context, a new theological anthropology that valued women's biological distinction, difference within sameness in creation, and absolute equality in redemption and callings. While his gender ideology is a work in progress, Luther's instincts are modern, if not even feminist, when placing the uterus at the central place of the delivery of the saving incarnate Word.