{"id":6642,"date":"2024-03-17T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2024-09-14T22:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T22:18:55","slug":"spring-2024-featured-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=6642","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2024 Featured Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert Jenson and the Dogmatic Location of Culture<br><em>by John W. Hoyum<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This article takes up Robert Jenson\u2019s theology of culture. According to Jenson, the church is a heavenly culture of its own alongside various worldly cultures. The church, therefore, presents a rival agenda for human social life conformed to a distinct Christian ethics and polity. Jenson\u2019s brand of  ecumenical ecclesiology has also been leveraged against the challenge of modern secularity.  However, this article contends that Jenson\u2019s ecumenical  vision overinflates the doctrine of the church by assigning culture to it. Jenson\u2019s ecclesiology risks the particularity of the various cultures, languages,  and contexts in which the gospel is proclaimed. To redistribute the contents of ecumenical ecclesiology\u2014 and its theology of culture\u2014into the  doctrine of creation, this article culminates with an examination of Martin Luther\u2019s theology and that of the Lutheran Confessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full essay <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/03_LUT_38-1_Hoyum_030-050.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article by John Hoyum takes up Robert Jenson\u2019s theology of culture. According to Jenson, the church is a heavenly culture of its own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}