The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation is significant in many respects, not least in providing an opportunity to revisit Martin Luther’s emphasis on the role of the laity. Yet his legacy of a positive and theologically robust understanding of vocation as located in the everyday world as well as the religious life has only sporadically informed the church’s understanding of lay ministry, and has frequently been frustrated by clericalism and institutional inertia. By revisiting some modern theologies of the laity from the mid-twentieth century, and in dialogue with a recent Church of England report, this article will suggest some ways in which understandings of lay ministry and discipleship might be renewed. A focus on a learning church, education for discernment and a worldly, missional ecclesiology will help to direct the church to a vision of an empowered, confident and theologically literate laity.

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路德的遗产：重新思考宗教改革 500 年后的平信徒门徒神学

新教改革 500 周年在许多方面都具有重要意义，尤其是提供了一个机会来重新审视马丁路德对平信徒角色的强调。然而，他对位于日常世界和宗教生活中的圣召的积极和神学上稳健的理解的遗产只是零星地影响了教会对平信徒事工的理解，并且经常因教权主义和制度惰性而受挫。通过重新审视 20 世纪中叶的一些现代平信徒神学，并与英国教会最近的一份报告进行对话，本文将提出一些可以更新对平信徒事工和门徒训练的理解的方法。专注于学习型教会、洞察力教育和世俗的、