Religionless Christianity Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Troubled Times

by Pugh, Jeffrey C.

• ISBN13: 9780567032591
• ISBN10: 0567032590
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

This book is an interpretation of Bonhoeffer in the contemporary context. Jeffrey Pugh puts Bonhoeffer's theology in perspective by revisiting some of the themes of his life that have found abiding significance in Christian theology. Starting with a chapt

Author Biography

Jeffrey C. Pugh is Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University, North Carolina, USA. He is also the author of Entertaining the Triune Mystery: God, Science, and the Space Between (TT Clark 2003)

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Why Bonhoeffer? Why Now?	p. 1
Whose Bonhoeffer?	p. 4
Is Bonhoeffer Still Relevant?	p. 10
Reading Bonhoeffer in Troubled Times	p. 12
A Life Among the Fragments	p. 20
Shattering the Already Broken	p. 24
Resistance?	p. 28
A Costly Grace	p. 35
On a Long Distant Shore	p. 39
Living in the World Come of Age	p. 45
Science, a New Authority	p. 50
What is the World for Us?	p. 53
It's All About the Money	p. 61
The Eclipse of Religion? Bonhoeffer and Religionless Christianity	p. 69
Saved-For What?	p. 80
Christianity Without Religion?	p. 82
Only the Suffering God Can Help	p. 96
Struggling in the Garden	p. 103
Standing with the Suffering	p. 105
Confronting the Powers	p. 117
Befriending the Empire	p. 118
I Pledge Allegiance to...?	p. 121
How Does Christ Take Form in the World Today?	p. 124
Thus Have We Made the World	p. 128
What is Christianity for Us Today?	p. 140
Gathered at the Table	p. 150
A Tale of Two Traditions	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 162
Index	p. 167
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