The Bonhoeffer Legacy

by Haynes, Stephen R.

• ISBN13: 9780800638153
• ISBN10: 0800638158
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

"Stephen Haynes, whose volume The Bonhoeffer Phenomenon probed the many conflicting ways in which Bonhoeffer has been understood by Christians for their own uses, now brings new clarity to the vexed and controversial question of Bonhoeffer's relationship to Jews and the Jewish people. Haynes's text analyzes the historical record and Bonhoeffer's maturing theology and offers an analysis of Bonhoeffer himself, his work, and his legacy for a generation learning from the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Stephen R. Haynes is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Bonhoeffer in Light of the Holocaust	xi
Actions Louder than Words	xii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Bonhoeffer and the Jews in Popular Memory	1	(18)
``The Jews'' and Bonhoeffer's Reception	1	(2)
The Bethge Effect	3	(5)
Harlem and Berlin	8	(1)
Fictional Bonhoeffers	9	(4)
The Confessing Church in Myth and History	13	(2)
A Conflicted Legacy	15	(4)
Bonhoeffer and the Jews in Scholarship	19	(28)
Jewish Perspectives	19	(9)
Christian Perspectives	28	(14)
Observations	42	(5)
The German Church Struggle in Post-Holocaust Perspective	47	(18)
Establishing Context	47	(2)
The Church Struggle and Anti-Jewish Discourse	49	(1)
The Theological Background	50	(3)
The Rhetorical Background	53	(4)
The ``Jewish Question''	57	(5)
``Jew'' and ``Jewish'' as Terms of Derision	62	(3)
Bonhoeffer's Early Anti-Nazi Writings in Post-Holocaust Perspective	65	(18)
``The Church and the Jewish Question'' in Context	65	(1)
The ``Jewish Question''	65	(2)
``Jewish Christianity''	67	(2)
Witness-People Theology	69	(5)
The Bethel Confession	74	(6)
Scholarly Spin Control	80	(3)
Bonhoeffer and Post-Holocaust Theology	83	(26)
A Post-Holocaust Thinker?	84	(1)
Evidence and Counterevidence	85	(1)
Church Struggle	85	(4)
Discipleship	89	(3)
Kristallnacht	92	(3)
Ethics	95	(6)
Letters and Papers from Prison	101	(4)
Persistent Ambivalence	105	(4)
Bonhoeffer and the Holocaust	109	(16)
A Different Post-Holocaust Perspective	109	(2)
Players in the Holocaust Drama	111	(1)
Bystander	112	(4)
Resister	116	(4)
Victim	120	(5)
Bonhoeffer and Christian Rescue	125	(20)
Bonhoeffer as Rescuer	125	(1)
From Rescue Research to Bonhoeffer	126	(3)
Models of Moral Courage	129	(4)
From Bonhoeffer to Rescue Research	133	(6)
Bonhoeffer and the Universalist-Exceptionalist Tension	139	(3)
Other or Brother?	142	(3)
The Paradox of Bonhoeffer's Post-Holocaust Legacy	145	(4)
Exceptionalism and the Witness-People Tradition	145	(2)
Beyond Bonhoeffer	147	(1)
A Final Word	148	(1)
Notes	149	(50)
Bibliography	199	(14)
Index	213