Non‐Lutheran Influences, Scholarly Impasses, and Spiritual Authority: A Response to Mawson, Harvey and Plant

The argument of Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther is that Bonhoeffer's thinking was Lutheran and ought to be interpreted as such. In a section of the book's Introduction I explain what I mean by “Lutheran” in connection with the book's thesis. Mike Mawson's review begins with a charitable and reliable summary of this section that relays a number of the definitional and methodological clarifications I put forward while also indicating the reasons standing behind some of them. He then offers an interesting account of MacIntyre on tradition and Bourdieu on habitus, aligning my thinking about “the Lutheran tradition” with the former.