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Carl E. Braaten

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Carl E. Braaten, is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He served as a parish pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Messiah in Minneapolis from 1958-1961. From 1961-1991 Braaten served as a professor of systematic theology at the Lutheran School of Theology at visa mer Chicago. In 1992 he together with Robert W. Jenson founded the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology in Northfield, Minnesota. For fifteen years he served as the executive director of the Center, an ecumenical organization whose mission is to cultivate faithfulness to the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the churches, and also as the editor-in-chief of Pro Ecclesia, a journal of theology published by the Center. Braaten has authored and edited over fifty theological books, including Principles of Lutheran Theology (Fortress, 1983), The Future of God: The Revolutionary Dynamics of Hope (Harper Row, 1969), Mother Church: Ecclesiology and Ecumenism (Fortress, 1998), Because of Christ: Memoirs of a Lutheran Theologian (Eerdmans, 2010), and Who Is Jesus? Disputed Questions and Answers (Eerdmans, 2011), as well as hundreds of articles and editorials in various academic journals. Braaten was born on January 3, 1929 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He grew up on the island of Madagascar where his parents served as missionaries of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America. He graduated from Augustana Academy, a Lutheran high school in Canton, South Dakota. He received degrees from St. Olaf College (BA), Luther Seminary (MDiv), and Harvard University Divinity School (ThD). In 1951 he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), in 1957 a doctoral student at the University of Heidelberg where he wrote his dissertation, and in 1967 a Guggenheim Fellow at Oxford University. In 1974 he spent a sabbatical making a worldwide lecture tour of various colleges and seminaries in Japan, China, India, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. This tour resulted in a book on the universal mission of the church entitled, The Flaming Center (Fortress, 1977). visa färre

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Verk av Carl E. Braaten

Principles of Lutheran Theology (1983) 143 exemplar
Christian Dogmatics, Volume 1 (1984) 88 exemplar
A Map of Twentieth Century Theology (1995) — Redaktör — 88 exemplar
The Catholicity of the Reformation (1996) — Redaktör — 80 exemplar
Christian Dogmatics, Volume 2 (1983) 77 exemplar
Reclaiming the Bible for the Church (1995) — Redaktör — 77 exemplar
Either/or: The Gospel or Neopaganism (1995) — Redaktör — 76 exemplar
Sin, Death, and the Devil (2000) — Redaktör — 61 exemplar
Mary, Mother of God (2004) — Redaktör — 51 exemplar
Marks of the Body of Christ (1999) — Redaktör — 51 exemplar
The Ecumenical Future (2004) 31 exemplar
The whole counsel of God, (1974) 9 exemplar
The Living Temple (1976) 5 exemplar
My Ecumenical Journey (2018) 2 exemplar
Saved By Grace Through Faith (2022) 2 exemplar

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Perspectives on 19th and 20th Century Protestant Theology (1967) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor57 exemplar

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1929-01-23
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StFrancisofAssisi | Aug 9, 2019 |
Summary: A theology focusing on our physical bodies as dwelling places for the Spirit of God and the implications for the food we eat, including the problems of processed, chemical-laden foods full of empty calories.

This is a book I wish I had read in 1976 when it was first published. It might have led to amendments in my own diet much sooner. More than this, it might have led to a more thoughtful perspective on one thing we all have in common, our bodies. What the Braatens offer in this brief work is a theology of the body as the temple of the Holy Spirit, countering the incipient Gnosticism and other worldly spirituality that the church has been dealing with throughout its history. It is not from Christianity which throughout its scriptures attests to a healthy body-theology, but from Greek Dionysian myths that the idea of body as evil comes to us. Sadly, over-spiritualized versions (and maybe over-intellectualized ones) deny our embodied existence, and lead us to a sad neglect of our bodies.

Much of the neglect that the Braatens focus on concerns the food we eat. While food cannot make us ritually and spiritually unclean, it certainly can pollute and deplete the temple of the Holy Spirit. They focus much of their attention on chemically treated and supplemented food and highly processed foods like white bread and white sugar. Presciently, they speak of a growing movement toward healthy, organically grown foods in which groceries would be forced to give over more space to organic foods.

They also see a connection between our care for our bodies and our care for the earth. They write:

"We are to our individual bodies what the whole body of mankind is to the earth. Our attitudes regarding our bodies reflect and express the way we look at the world around us. It is downright silly, for example, to fight for clean air in the city and then suck cigarette smoke into our lungs. We must learn that we are dovetailed into the world. We simply die without day-to-day communion with the vital systems of the good earth. Good body ecology is the key to the renewal of the earth on a global scale" (p. 67).

I do wish this work could have been revised rather than simply re-printed. It suffers in places from what is probably outdated nutritional advice. Yet some things, like the concern about nitrites, are right on target and only now being addressed. At times the authors make sweeping statements railing against big business without substantiation. Yet their fundamental case concerning the food processing industry, the values of organic foods and moving away from a meat-laden diet, path-breaking then, is increasingly common wisdom. In sum, they still get more right than wrong.

Christians are just discovering a theology of our embodied life and working out the implications of this in various areas of self-care. What makes this book so interesting is that it anticipates by forty years work only now being done and articulates both theological grounds and concrete action, and with remarkable brevity. Wipf & Stock is to be commended for bringing back into print this pioneering work.

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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
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BobonBooks | Jun 14, 2017 |
this book is very interesting, although sometimes it has a slightly overly-biased ecumenical agenda; I do think it has a lot of helpful things to say. Some of the theological concepts and ideas here are wonderful. Although the authors do appeal to Scripture, I think more appeal to Scripture would be even more profitable, to back up their assertions. However, I do recognise that their discussion is around discovering what Luther himself taught, and his theology, as opposed to the Scriptures. And of course for the appeals to Scripture, read Luther himself ! Very interesting, and helpful in the main.… (mer)
 
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matthewgray | Jul 7, 2014 |
This is a fascinating book for a son of a missionary, student of theology in Africa and Europe, pastor in the Lutheran Church and teacher of theology too. This read however became quite intriguing when he started to disclose the influence of the Seminex people on the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, but also on ELCA as a whole - it just became another liberal protestant denomination in the sense of "Kulturprotestantismus" or paraphrasing Karl Barth: "Just another form of heresy". It is with sadness, but also some trepidation to see how such a Church gives up its very foundations. Interesting to read how the local Prof. Dr. Klaus Nuernberger opposes Braaten in his analysis. Issues of homosexuality, quotas, democracy in the church, but also JDDJ are also addressed in a thoughtful way. Braaten is not a confessional Lutheran in the sense of the ILC, but his autobiography goes a long way to explain contemporary workings in the ELCA, LWF and global Church. Tolle lege!… (mer)
 
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Wilhelm_Weber | Jan 23, 2011 |

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