Varúðarmerki hatursorðræðu

Marit A. Trelstad flytur fyrirlestur á vegum Guðfræðistofnunar Háskóla Íslands sem nefnist „Varúðarmerki hatursorðræðu:  Að þekkja og afhjúpa orðræðu sem réttlætir morð, ofbeldi og niðurlægingu annarra.“

Fyrirlesturinn verður haldinn í stofu 229 í Aðalbyggingu Háskóla Íslands, 29. mars kl. 13:30-15:00. Hann verður fluttur á ensku. 

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Útdráttur (á ensku):

Luther’s disturbing anti-Semitic writings have long troubled Lutherans who have denounced them. This lecture focuses on ethnonationalism, hate and models of theology that highlight a relational understanding of personhood that counter Luther’s polemics and the binaries and divisions in today’s social and political landscape. We will examine Luther’s treatise using tools provided in the books Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others (2011) by David Livingstone Smith and George Tinker’s Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Genocide (1993). From these two resources in relation to Luther’s writing, we can start to develop a set of “red flags” that identify and challenge the forms of thought that support ethnonationalism. Luther understandings of baptismal identity, grounded in relational love, plus insights from process and intersectional theologies, lead us to focus on the relatedness – not separation – of people and thus challenge the easy demonization of the “other.”

Um Marit A. Trelstad

Marit A. Trelstad er  the University Chair of Lutheran Studies og prófessor í Constructive and Lutheran Theologies í Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, Bandaríkjunum. Rannsóknir hennar tengja saman femíníska, prósess og lútherska guðfræði. Hún gaf út bókina Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today (Fortress, 2006) og hefur skrifað kafla í ritrýndum safnritum, t.d.  The Crux of Theology: Luther’s Teachings and our Work for Freedom, Justice and Peace (Lexington, 2022), Luther from the SubAltern – the Alternative Luther (Lexington, 2019, Theological and Ethical Perspectives on Climate Engineering, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), Transformative Lutheran Theologies (Fortress, 2010), Lutherrenaissance: Past and Present (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014) and Creating Women’s Theology:  A Movement Engaging Process Thought, (St. Louis:  Chalice, 2011).