Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Promise of His Theology

by Marsh, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780195111446
• ISBN10: 0195111443
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this book, Marsh offers a new way of reading the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian theologian who was executed for his role in the resistance against Hitler and the Nazis. Focusing on Bonhoeffer's substantial philosophical interests, Marsh examines his work in the context of the German philosophical tradition, from Kant through Hegel to Heidegger. Marsh argues that Bonhoeffer's description of human identity offers a compelling alternative to post-Kantian conceptions of selfhood. In addition, he shows that Bonhoeffer, while working within the boundaries of Barth's theology, provides both a critique and redescription of the tradition of transcendental subjectivity. This fresh look at Bonhoeffer's thought will provoke much discussion in the theological academy and the church, as well as in broader forums of intellectual life.

Author Biography

Charles Marsh is Assistant Professor of Theology at Loyola College in Maryland.

Table of Contents

The Context of Reclamation
Barth and Bonhoeffer on the Worldliness of Revelation	p. 3
The Biographical Context	p. 3
Theological Analysis	p. 7
Karl Barth on Philosophy	p. 35
Worldliness and Philosophy	p. 35
Barth's ad hoc Reflections on the Meaning and Use of Philosophy	p. 36
Benign Neglect	p. 51
Bonhoeffer's Christological Redescription of Philosophy	p. 55
The Problem of System	p. 55
Theology's Internal Correlation	p. 59
Life Together
Christ Between Totality and Otherness: Bonhoeffer's Earliest Theology	p. 67
Ethical Relation and the Place of the Other	p. 68
Alterity and Community	p. 71
Christ as the Mediation of the Other	p. 81
Hegel on Spirit in Community	p. 83
"Christ Existing as Community,"	p. 88
Community, World, and Obedience	p. 101
Subjectivity as Servanthood	p. 108
On Heidegger and Life with Others	p. 111
Self and World in Being and Time	p. 112
Bonhoeffer and Heidegger Against the Self-Reflective Subject	p. 117
The Problem of Potentiality in Theology	p. 120
The Continuity of Community	p. 125
Being-in Christ	p. 127
Resistance	p. 133
The Self for Others
The Overabundant I	p. 137
Christological Relation	p. 139
Scharlemann's Acoluthetic Reason	p. 144
Being There for Others: Trinitarian Self-Becoming	p. 150
Notes	p. 159
Index	p. 191
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