Event: "Inter-religious Critique of Capitalism"
On Saturday, Nov. 4, Jubilee OneEarth Economics hosts Ulrich Duchrow from Heidelberg, Germany,
at St. Paul’s Cathedral, 6th and Nutmeg, San Diego, in the Guild Room.
We’ll start at 9 a.m. Ulrich will speak on
"Interreligious Critique of Capitalism"
Finding Our Way to Earth-size Living
Register by sending a note to lee@jubilee-economics.org.
Cost? $5. Pay at the door. Includes free coffee and fruit for all who’ve register ahead.
Free. The first 13 registrants receive a free copy of Ulrich’s book, Property for People, Not for Profit (currently sells for $42 on Amazon).
Ulrich was nearly ten years old when what the Nazis called the Third Reich fell (1945). He was in the generation of Germans who grew into adulthood asking, “How could this have happened to us?” It is the country, after all, in which Bach, Beethoven, Martin Luther, biblical scholars, and philosophers thrived, and yet ... it happened.
Duchrow is a critic of global capitalism. He advocates a different path from the neoliberalism by which economic policies are liberalized in the direction of privatization, austerity, free trade agreements, and deregulation. He articulates a role for the church in the changes that make a better world ecologically and economically.
Ulrich Duchrow is professor of systematic theology at the University of Heidelberg, specializing in ecumenical theology and theology-economy issues. He is on a brief tour of the U.S. West Coast because this is the 500th year since Martin Luther posted 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany, urging radical reform. To be sure that this anniversary can have reforming power in our world today, wherever the anniversary is celebrated, Ulrich has been part of an effort called “Radicalizing Reformation.” 94 theses for our world in 2017 have been posted on the web, see http://www.radicalizing-reformation.com/index.php/en/
A critical research and action project towards 2017
Meetings began in 2012 to plan for “Radicalizing Reformation.”
"Serious reflection on the Gospel and sharp eyes on the present reality are the forces through which the living church is born anew. The church of the future will not be 'bourgeois'." Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sanctorum Communio (DBW 1, 292)
The year 2017 is the quincentenary of the Reformation, 500 years after Martin Luther's 95 Theses in Wittenberg. In view of the present crises it is insufficient just to celebrate this event. Therefore an interdisciplinary group of scholars has formed an alliance to use the occasion of the quincentenary to raise critical questions about how the Reformation contributed to the development of modernity and these subsequent crises, and how re-envisioned Reformation understandings and practices can contribute to addressing these crises today. This calls for deep conversion and transformation, growing out of the roots of this legacy, i.e., “radicalizing” it. About thirty participants in the project met in Nürnberg/Germany from February 19 to 23, 2012 in order to design a research and action program to engage this challenge leading up to 2017.
