Ethics

by Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

• ISBN13: 9780800683269
• ISBN10: 0800683269
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

Called by Karl Barth "the brilliant Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer," this book is finally being recognized as Bonhoeffer's magnum opus and one of the most important works of Christian ethics of the last century. Presented here in a new translation and a striking new arrangement, it is based on intensive study of the original manuscripts and includes copious historical notes and commentary. Written in the midst of the conspiracy to overthrow the Hitler regime, it is nonetheless chiefly concerned with ethics for the postwar time of reconstruction and peace. Focused on Christ, the God who became human, and the vision of a world reconciled with God, the Ethics shuns abstraction, seeks the will of God in concrete historical reality, and calls the church to be a transforming community in the world with a new responsibility in public life. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45), a German theologian, pastor, and ecumenist, studied in Berlin and at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He played a central role in the Confessing Church during the Nazi period and became one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Foreword to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Editor's Introduction to the English Edition, Clifford J. Green	p. 1
Ethics: Manuscripts in a Reconstructed Writing Sequence	p. 45
Christ, Reality, and Good. Christ, Church, and World	p. 47
Ethics as Formation	p. 76
Heritage and Decay	p. 103
Guilt, Justification, Renewal	p. 134
Ultimate and Penultimate Things	p. 146
Natural Life	p. 171
Natural Life	p. 178
Suum Cuique	p. 181
The Right to Bodily Life	p. 185
Self-Murder	p. 196
Reproduction and Developing Life	p. 203
The Freedom of Bodily Life	p. 214
The Natural Rights of the Life of the Spirit	p. 217
History and Good [1]	p. 219
History and Good [2]	p. 246
The Structure of Responsible Life	p. 257
The Place of Responsibility	p. 289
Love and Responsibility	p. 298
God's Love and the Disintegration of the World	p. 299
Church and World I	p. 339
On the Possibility of the Church's Message to the World	p. 352
The "Ethical" and the "Christian" as a Topic	p. 363
The Concrete Commandment and the Divine Mandates	p. 388
The Commandment of God in the Church	p. 394
Editors' Afterword to the German Edition	p. 409
Appendices
Chronology of Ethics	p. 450
Preparing the German Edition of Ethics Ilse Todt	p. 467
Arrangements of Ethics	p. 477
Facsimile Pages, "Heritage and Decay"	p. 478
Bibliography
Literature Used by Bonhoeffer	p. 481
Literature Consulted by the Editors	p. 491
Other Literature Related to Ethics	p. 515
Index of Scriptural References	p. 527
Index of Names	p. 531
Index of Subjects	p. 561
Editors and Translators	p. 591
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