Articles by Jonathan Linman
The Rev. Jonathan Linman, Ph.D. is Assistant to the Bishop for Faith and Leadership Formation in the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He is author of Holy Conversation: Spirituality for Worship (Fortress, 2010), and was also a contributor to Fortress Press’ New Proclamation series in 2013. From 2001 to 2009, Pastor Linman was Director of the Center for Christian Spirituality and Professor of Ascetical Theology at The General Theological Seminary in New York City. Prior to that, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in the inner-city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
by Jonathan Linman
Rooted in a robust, nuanced, and expansive understanding of Christian freedom, Martin Luther’s famous paradox, paraphrased as “subject to none, subject to all,” forms the foundation for Lutheran social ethics which continue to resonate with profound relevance in our day, five hundred years after the beginning of the Reformation.
