“The Protestant doctrine about the justification of sinners, and today’s theology about the liberation of the oppressed, do not have to be antitheses. They can correct and enrich one another mutually. The full and complete Protestant doctrine of justification is a liberation theology: it is about the liberation of people deprived of justice and about the liberation of the unjust, so that they may all be freed for a just society. The one sided limitation to the perpetrators, and the forgiveness of their active sins, has made Protestantism blind to the sufferings of the victims, and to God’s saving option for the poor. Protestantism has underrated the importance of structural sin by looking too exclusively at individuals. But this is a one sided approach.”
Jurgen Moltmann – The Spirit of Life, P128
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