Readers find, in his works, resources that are more capable of responding to contemporary political realities then they find in responsible readings of Luther. Others feel that Luther's “Two Kingdoms” Doctrine has been misread, while others see his “Letter to Soldiers” as providing a theological framework for the rejection of participation in unjust wars, even when the state commands them.ĭietrich Bonhoeffer's writings figure prominently in some recent attempts to formulate a contemporary Lutheran political theology. Others disqualify the viability of his political thought, on the basis of his anti-Semitism including somewhat controversial attempts to link Nazism’s rise to Lutheran thinking. Some authors argue Luther’s stance before the unjust, authoritarian princes-especially in his response to the Peasant's Rebellion was to cowardly. The applicability of Martin Luther's 16th century political writings to the formation of a contemporary Lutheran political ethic has been both challenged and affirmed by several monographs in the last few years.
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