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Communicating a Protesting Protestant Heritage
Author(s) -
Rowe Terra Schwerin
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.12339
Subject(s) - homo economicus , protestantism , conversation , politics , agency (philosophy) , subject (documents) , articulation (sociology) , sociology , sloth , religious studies , philosophy , law , political science , social science , neoclassical economics , communication , library science , computer science , economics , paleontology , biology
This article opens by wondering, as many critics did during and after World War II, why a tradition named for its protesting impetus is today often marked by complacency and quietism. In conversation with political theorist William Connolly and Rev. Dr. William Barber's activism, this article suggests that Luther's unique articulation of the communicatio idiomatum might offer a compelling and coherent model for Lutheran ethical‐political agency that can provide an alternative to—rather than reinforcing—the modern isolated subject cum homo economicus often associated with idealized images of Luther's protest before the Diet of Worms.