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A study on a paradoxical and contradictional exculpation of apoliticalization of religion/theology found in Luther’s theology

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ABSTRACT

This research examines how a church and a pastor should treat politic in a way of inheriting reformed confession, because the separation of church and state can be asserted or rejected according to an ideology, a stance, and a preference. To clarify this, this study delves into the stance of Luther who was a starting point of protestant and a strong advocate of reformation. To begin with, the research doubts on his thought that a church, a pastor, and a theology must be irrelevant to a politic, because there are paradoxes and contradictions in his writings such as: ‘Secular authority: To what extent it should be obeyed’, ‘An open letter to the Christian nobility’, ‘The Babylonian captivity of the church’, and ‘Whether soldiers, too, can be saved’. After studying these writings, this study answers to the question of “Can the theology of Luther be apolitical?” and “Can our ‘being theology’ and ‘doing theology’ be apolitical?” by examining the reality of the Korean church. This research criticizes on the opinion that Luther had declared the apoliticalization of theology and faith, but it argues that a church and the theology must do and speak about the politics.

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