The Place of Bonhoeffer

by Marty, Martin E.; Berger, Peter (CON); Forell, George (CON); Fuller, Reginald (CON); Harrelson, Walter (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781606089835
• ISBN10: 1606089838
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

With essays by Peter Berger, George Forell, Reginald Fuller, Walter Harrelson, Franklin Littell, Jaroslav Pelikan, Franklin Sherman, all under the editorship of Martin Marty. Less than two decades since Bonhoeffer's execution in 1945, a symposium of scholars was held to rescue the real Bonhoeffer from the so-called "Bonhoeffer mystique" that was popular in the 1960's. Martin Marty, who planned and edited this symposium, writes in his Introduction: "Here, For the first time in the U.S., a number of Christian thinkers gather to analyze Bonhoeffer's theological achievement. . . . The eight writers of this book try to locate his methods and emphases in the various disciplines of theological study." These disciplines include biblical studies, church history, systematic theology, ethics, sociology, philosophy, and liturgy and devotion. Altogether, these seminal essays serve to reinstate the central question, continually reiterated by Bonhoeffer, "Who is Christ for us today?"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 1
Works of Bonhoeffer	p. 6
Introduction	p. 9
Problems and Possibilities in Bonhoeffer's Thought
The Question: Who is Christ for Us Today?	p. 25
Bonhoeffer's History, Church, and World
The Social Character of the Question Concerning Jesus Christ	p. 51
Sociology and Ecclesiology
The Methods of Asking the Question Concerning Jesus Christ	p. 81
Act and Being	p. 81
The Source of Answers to the Question Concerning Jesus Christ	p. 113
Bonhoeffer and the Bible	p. 113
The Early Answer to the Question Concerning Jesus Christ	p. 143
Bonhoeffer's Christologie of 1993
The Christian in the Church Responding to the Answer in Jesus Christ	p. 167
Liturgy and Devotion
The Christian in the World Responding to the Answer in Jesus Christ	p. 197
Realized Faith, the Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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