T&T Clark Companion to Reformation Theology (Bloomsbury Companions) by David M Whitford

Author:David M Whitford [Whitford, David M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780567445087
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

15 Political Theology in the Reformation

Volker Leppin

At first glance, Reformation theology does not seem, in itself, to be political. If there is something that comprises the core of the reformatory message, it would be the gospel of a person justified by faith alone, regardless of that person’s social or political concerns. But “pure theology” is not apolitical in any way as no one has better shown than Karl Barth in the twentieth century with his claim that to do theology is a political act.1 Theology even if one means pure theological inquiry becomes political because it is always lived out in a social and political context. Thus, political theology in the Reformation era can be best understood when we understand the respective social and political circumstances in which it was written and debated. We examine various environments to help us understand the different shapes that political theology could take in the Reformation movement.

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