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A Tribute to Karen Bloomquist June 2010 Volume 37 Number 3 Theology in the Life of the Lutheran Communion: A Tribute to Karen Bloomquist CURRENTS in Theology and Mission Currents in Theology and Mission Published by Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in cooperation with Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Wartburg Theological Seminary Editors: Kathleen D. Billman, Kurt K. Hendel, Mark N. Swanson Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Associate Editor: Craig L. Nessan Wartburg Theological Seminary (563/589-0207) [email protected] Assistant Editor: Ann Rezny [email protected] Copy Editor: Connie Sletto Editor of Preaching Helps: Craig A. Satterlee Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago [email protected] Editors of Book Reviews: Ralph W. Klein (Old Testament) Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (773/256-0773) [email protected] Edgar M. Krentz (New Testament) Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (773/256-0752) [email protected] Craig L. Nessan (history, theology, and ethics) Wartburg Theological Seminary (563/589-0207) [email protected] Circulation Office: 773/256-0751 [email protected] Editorial Board: Pamela J. S. Challis, Randall R. Lee, Richard L. Ramirez, Susan Rippert, Barbara Rossing, Jensen Seyenkulo, Susan Swanson, Vicki Watkins, Fritz Wehrenberg, Vítor Westhelle. CURRENTS IN THEOLOGY AND MISSION (ISSN: 0098-2113) is published bimonthly (every other month), February, April, June, August, October, December. Annual subscription rate: $24.00 in the U.S.A., $28.00 elsewhere. Two-year rate: $44.00 in the U.S.A., $52.00 elsewhere. Three-year rate: $60.00 in the U.S.A., $72.00 elsewhere. Many back issues are available for $5.00, postage included. Published by Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, a nonprofit organization, 1100 East 55th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60615, to which all business correspondence is to be addressed. Printed in U.S.A. CURRENTS is indexed in ATLA Religion Database, Elenchus, IZBW, NTA, OTA, Religion Index I (formerly IRPL), Religious and Theological Abstracts, and Theologische Literaturzeitung. MICROFORM AVAILABILITY: 16mm microfilm, 35mm microfilm, 105mm microfiche, and article copies are available through University Microfilms Inc., 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. Unless otherwise noted scripture references are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National council of the Churches of Christ in the USA and used by permission. All rights reserved. Contents Theology in the Life of the Lutheran Communion: A Tribute to Karen Bloomquist Vítor Westhelle 174 A Tribute to Karen L. Bloomquist Ishmael Noko 175 Huldah at the Table: Reflections on Leadership and the Leadership of Women Karin Achtelstetter 176 Studying and Doing Theologies in the © LWF/H. Putsman Penet Putsman © LWF/H. Life of the Churches Karen Bloomquist Paul John Isaak 185 Three Theses on the Theological Discussion of Homosexuality in the Global Lutheran Communion Craig L. Nessan 191 Luther and the Erotic Elisabeth Gerle 198 Karen Bloomquist, Luther, and the Challenge of Climate Justice Cynthia Moe-Lobeda 209 Empowerment and Discernment in Diaspora Situations Simone Sinn 217 Why Luke’s Gospel? Daily Bread and “Recognition” of Christ in Food-Sharing Barbara Rossing 225 Beyond Service: What Justice Requires Martha E. Stortz 230 Thistle Flowers: Theology from the Wayside Mary Philip (Joy) 238 Karen—a Lincolnesque Leader Iris J. Benesch 245 Book Reviews 249 Preaching Helps “Turning the Tables” Craig A. Satterlee 256 Lectionary 18 – Lectionary 26 Patrick H. Shebeck 258 Theology in the Life of the Lutheran Communion: A Tribute to Karen Bloomquist The Lutheran World Federation, through its Department of Theology and Studies (DTS), has carried out a crucial role in maintaining and furthering an ecclesial conversation and theological disposition that has dared to trespass the Nordic confines of the Lutheran theological idiom. What lies ahead, when Lu- theranism, following other Christian communions is migrating to the planetary south en masse, is still a parchment in wait of scribes to be read. DTS undertook this task, calling a halt to the centuries-long hovering of the theological world of Lutheranism around its north-Atlantic, male-dominated and exclusivist axis. The present issue in this journal is devoted to and a witness to the vibrant theol- ogy in the life of the church as it happens in the Lutheran communion thanks to the dedicated work of the Rev. Dr. Karen Bloomquist who, for the last decade, has steered the theological nave through waters largely unknown to the Federation. This volume is dedicated to the resolute work of Bloomquist who not only welcomed the rafts, catamarans and jangadas, but adroitly navigated them through the seas of Lutheran communion worldwide. To this end, the pages that follow offer a slim, nevertheless significant, scope of the contribution of Bloomquist to the attentiveness of the DTS to the throb- bing life of theology being done as it departs from fetters that have traditionally anchored it on shores that for long and memorable times captivated it. Due trib- utes offered Noko,( Benesch), and the examination of the significant role voices intoned but not often heard (Achtelstetter, Isaak, Philip) offer the frame that encompasses learned treatises on questions of sexuality and the erotic (Nessan, Gerle), on the environment (Moe-Lobeda, Rossing), religious interface (Sinn) and facets of the ecumenical wells of the reforming Christian movement (Stortz). As homage to Karen Bloomquist and the role of theology in the life of the Lutheran world communion, these few pages have been a daunting challenge for its guest editor to bring to visibility the sparkles of many other voices and faces, which human frailty and ignorance have failed to detect or acknowledge. Even so, Karen, we dare to celebrate with you what has been, is, and is to be. Vítor Westhelle Editor for the June 2010 issue Currents in Theology and Mission 37:3 (June 2010) A Tribute to Karen L. Bloomquist Rev. Dr. Ishmael Noko General Secretary, The Lutheran World Federation Karen L. Bloomquist served as director of and campaigning and lobbying to limit the Department for Theology and Studies further climate change and mitigate its of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) effects. She knows how to move beyond from 1999 to 2010. Karen came to the LWF the rhetoric, beyond the polemic, by en- following my “call,” which she only accepted couraging more complex and grounded after weeks of rumination. I am happy that understandings of the issues at hand. she agreed to stay beyond the initially agreed During her tenure in Geneva, one of upon period of twelve months. Karen’s major foci was the “theology in Karen is a woman of many qualities, the life of the church” program. Bringing a “woman for all seasons”: her conscience together theologians from all four corners dictates that she not turn her back on what of the globe, this program sought to as- she believes to be right, or on God. She certain how we can learn from cultural, is broad-minded, flexible, adaptable, and gender, social, economic, political, and accommodating, yet she can also be stub- interreligious realities different from our born and will defend almost ferociously an own and be transformed by them. How issue or agenda she believes in. She has a might these different perspectives become pronounced sense of justice and fairness, more constitutive and transformative of challenging others while always seriously Lutheran theology in the twenty-first taking into account their opinions. She is century? The program was a highly suc- a full-blooded intellectual and academic cessful attempt to bridge the gap between who knows how to communicate in ways the various theological disciplines and the that do not alienate those who are not life of the church. Karen believed in the familiar with the ways of the academy. She capacity of those who are normally not is a passionate, global theologian, at home invited to participate in scientific theo- and known in both the global North and logical conversations. Karen is a “people’s the global South, who has encouraged, theologian.” nurtured, and facilitated collaborative For eleven years, Karen has been at cross- and trans-contextual theological the helm of the DTS boat, navigating it work, by drawing on a global network of with gentle firmness across the rough seas theologians, which she herself established of change. She has managed to stay the over the years. Her active engagement course, has been wise and strong enough with theologians from the global South, to know when to “go with the flow,” and especially young women, is impressive. She when to steer against the current. On her is a woman of the church and an ethicist return to the United States, she will be actively engaged in social justice activism, able to look back at efforts that were not working on theological rationales for, for only groundbreaking and very productive, instance, opposing unjust economic struc- but also touched the lives of many people tures, holding governments accountable, around the world. Currents in Theology and Mission 37:3 (June 2010) Huldah at the Table: Reflections on Leadership and the Leadership of Women Karin Achtelstetter Director and Editor-in-Chief of The Lutheran World Federation Office for Communication Services and Professor at the Theological Faculty of Erlangen, Germany It follows from this argument that all are the first Lutheran female bishop in the consecrated priests through baptism, world. Today, Lutheran women serve their that there is no true, basic difference churches as bishops, presidents, and leaders between laymen and priests, princes and in churches in Africa, Asia, Europe, North bishops, between religious and secular, and South America. except for the sake of office and work, It is estimated that five of the 178 but not for the sake of status.
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