Bonhoeffer and King

by Jenkins, Willis

• ISBN13: 9780800663339
• ISBN10: 0800663330
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. are here reassessed for a new context and a new generation. Both combined activism, ministry, and theology. Both took on public roles in opposition to prevailing powers of their time. Both professed a kind of Christian realism and ended as martyrs to their respective causes. Here many of the leaders in Christian social thought revisit the insights, causes, and strategies that Bonhoeffer and King employed for a new generation and its concerns: race, reconciliation, nonviolence, political violence, Christian theological identity, and ministry.

Author Biography

Willis Jenkins is Margaret Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics at Yale Divinity School and author of Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology (2008). Jennifer M. McBride is a Visiting Lecturer at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and Director of the Atlanta Theological Associations Certificate in Theological Studies at Metro State Prison for Women. She is author of the forthcoming work The Church for the World: A Theology of Public Witness.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Communal Receptions and Constructive Readings for the Twenty-First Century	p. 1
Critical Distance	p. 11
Notes on Appropriation and Reciprocity: Prompts from Bonhoeffer and King's Communitarian Ethic	p. 13
King and Bonhoeffer as Protestant Saints: The Use and Misuse of Contested Legacies	p. 21
Bonhoeffer, King, and Feminism: Problems and Possibilities	p. 33
Political Order, Political Violence, and Ethical Limits	p. 43
Shared Humanity	p. 53
Life Worthy of Life: The Social Ecologies of Bonhoeffer and King	p. 55
Theology and the Problem of Racism	p. 69
Bonhoeffer, King and Themes in Catholic Social Thought	p. 79
Church, World, and Christian Charity	p. 91
The Cross and Its Victims: Bonhoeffer, King, and Martyrdom	p. 107
Spaces for Redemption	p. 121
Bonhoeffer on the Road to King: "Turning from the Phraseological to the Real"	p. 123
Interpreting Pastors as Activists	p. 139
Preaching and Prophetic Witness	p. 151
Embodying Redemption: King and the Engagement of Social Sin	p. 163
Culture in Bonhoeffer and King: Deweyan Naturalism in Action	p. 175
Practices of Peace	p. 189
Peacemaking	p. 191
Spiritualities of Justice, Peace, and Freedom for the Oppressed	p. 207
Overhearing Resonances: Jesus and Ethics in King and Bonhoeffer	p. 219
Reconciliation as Worshiping Community	p. 233
Conclusion: Christian Social Ethics after Bonhoeffer and King	p. 243
Abbreviations	p. 259
Notes	p. 263
Bibliography	p. 297
Index	p. 299
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