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Karen Kuhnert

DOI

10.51644/EDIB1395

Abstract

Building primarily on Gordon A. Jensen’s text Experiencing Gospel: The History and Creativity of Martin Luther’s 1534 Bible Project (2023) and the work of Kirsi I. Stjerna et. al in Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, and Contexts (2022), this essay demonstrates that the theological legacies of knowable Reformation era men, women, and children (in their own cultural, geographic, and linguistic contexts) can be recognized as having crossed the Atlantic with explorers, settlers, and pioneers and that these theological legacies continue to shape North American religious-cultural contexts today. The combined depth and quality of the cited research from Jensen and Stjerna et. al. opens up new ground for research in Reformation and Contemporary era Studies and Luther Studies. Their works pair well with intersectional interdisciplinary scholarly efforts to move beyond limited traditional categories of academic inquiry (such as gender, as demonstrated in emerging works by authors involved in the The Alternative Luther: Lutheran Theology from the Subaltern Project, and the 2SLGBTQIA+ Issue (Vol. 43: Iss. 2) of Consensus: A Canadian Journal of Public Theology. In addition to scholarly writings (books, journals, and reference works), this essay highlights little known materials available to researchers through Canadian and international archivists, archives, and museums that can advance studies in Reformation history and theology and Contemporary social and religious histories. This essay recognizes that French Protestantism, particularly in Canadian colonial history, and North American Lutheran history, remains poorly acknowledged. This essay lifts up and features evidence-based research materials to construct profiles of women in history, particularly Reformation history and Canadian history. This writing is an effort towards the advancement of domestic and global ecumenism in the year of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Council of Churches.

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