Bonhoeffer for a New Day

by International Bonhoeffer Conference 1996 (Cape Town, South Africa); De Gruchy, John W.

• ISBN13: 9780802842848
• ISBN10: 0802842844
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

The extraordinary life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer have had a major impact of Christianity and the ecumenical church since his martyrdom fifty years ago. But can it be said the Bonhoeffer is still of significance for us today as we stand on the brink of a new millennium in a rapidly changing world of many different contexts? This question provided the theme for the seventh international Bonhoeffer Congress held in Cape Town, South Africa, in early 1996.

Table of Contents

Introduction: "Are We Still of Any Use?"	1
John de Gruchy
CHRISTIANITY IN A WORLD COME OF AGE	9	(128)
Dear Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Letter	9	(11)
Chung Hyun Kyung
"Who Is Jesus Christ, for Us, Today?"	20	(19)
Peter Selby
The Nonreligious Scientist and the Confessing Theologian: The Influence of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer on His Younger Brother Dietrich	39	(18)
Eberhard Bethge
"Religionless Christianity": Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Tegel Theology	57	(15)
Ralf K. Wustenberg
"The Wound of History": Reading Bonhoeffer after Christendom	72	(22)
Barry Harvey
"Waiting for the Word": The Churches' Embarrassment in Speaking about God	94	(18)
Frits de Lange
God and World: The Possibility of the New	112	(25)
James Cochrane
RESPONSIBLE FREEDOM	137	(86)
Ethics for the Renewal of Life: A Reconstruction of Its Concept	137	(18)
Hans Pfeifer
"Who Stands Fast?" Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Thomas Merton on Obedience	155	(20)
William D. Apel
The Enemy and Righteous Action: A Hermeneutical Reassessment	175	(15)
Hans Dirk van Hoogstraten
The Priority of the Other: Ethics in Africa: Perspectives from Bonhoeffer and Levinas	190	(19)
Elias Bongmba
The Ethics of Responsibility: Human Rights in South Africa	209
N. Barney Pityana
POLITICAL WITNESS AND THE OIKOUMENE	223	(150)
Caesar, Sovereignty, and Bonhoeffer	223	(14)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Church versus State: Human Rights, the Church, and the Jewish Question (1933)	236	(22)
Alejandro Zorzin
Sharing the Destiny of His People	258	(20)
Andreas Pangritz
Bonhoeffer's Reception in East Germany	278	(20)
John A. Moses
The Idolatrous Enchainment of Church and State: Bonhoeffer's Critique of Freedom in the United States	298	(21)
Geffrey B. Kelly
Bonhoeffer and the Ecumenical Movement	319	(21)
Konrad Raiser
Dialogue with the Orthodox World: A Further Journey for Bonhoeffer	340	(13)
Keith Clements
Bonhoeffer, Apartheid, and Beyond: The Reception of Bonhoeffer in South Africa	353	(13)
John W. de Gruchy
Afterword: Is Bonhoeffer Still of Any Use in South Africa?	366	(7)
H. Russel Botman
Abbreviations	373	(2)
Contributors	375	(2)
Unpublished Seminar Papers	377