Sanctorum Communio

by Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

• ISBN13: 9780800683016
• ISBN10: 0800683013
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

Here is offered the complete text in translation, annotated by the German and American editors. The historical context is explained and textual commentary is provided in a Foreword and Afterword.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Foreword to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works	ix	(6)
Abbreviations	xv
Editor's Introduction to the English Edition	1	(20)
Clifford J. Green
Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church
Preface	21	(3)
CHAPTER ONE On the Definition of Social Philosophy and Sociology	24	(10)
CHAPTER TWO The Christian Concept of Person and Concepts of Social Basic-Relation	34	(24)
A. Four Conceptual Models of Social Basic-Relation, and the Debate between These and the Christian Concepts of Person and Basic-Relation	34	(20)
B. The Concept of God and Social Basic-Relations in Terms of the I-You-Relation	54	(4)
CHAPTER THREE The Primal State and the Problem of Community	58	(49)
A. Methodological Problems	58	(7)
B. The Social-Philosophical Problem: Human Spirit and Sociality	65	(15)
1. Personal Being as Structurally Open	65	(8)
2. Personal Being as Structurally Closed	73	(7)
C. The Sociological Problem	80	(27)
1. Social Community as Community of Will	80	(6)
2. Typology of Social Communities	86	(11)
3. Objective Spirit	97	(10)
CHAPTER FOUR Sin and Broken Community	107	(15)
A. The Doctrine of Original Sin	109	(9)
B. Ethical Collective Persons	118	(4)
CHAPTER FIVE Sanctorum Communio	122	(168)
A. Basic Principles	122	(19)
1. Synthesis of the Previous Argument in the Concept of the Church: Retrospect and Prospect	122	(12)
2. Major Themes in the New Testament View of the Church	134	(7)
B. Positive Presentation: Introduction to the Basic Problems and Their Exposition	141	(149)
1. The Church Established in and through Christ-Its Realization	145	(12)
2. The Holy Spirit and the Church of Jesus Christ: The Actualization of the Essential Church	157	(4)
a) Plurality of Spirit	161	(4)
b) Community of Spirit	165	(27)
c) The Unity of Spirit of the Church-Community-The Collective Person	192	(16)
3. The Empirical Form of the Church	208	(1)
a) The Objective Spirit of the Church-Community and the Holy Spirit	208	(8)
b) The Logical Relation Between the Empirical and the Essential Church	216	(10)
c) Sociological Forms and Functions of the Empirical Church	226	(1)
(1) Assembling for Worship	226	(5)
(2) The Sanctorum Communio as the Bearer of the 'Office'	231	(6)
(3) The Sociological Meaning of the Cultic Acts	237	(10)
(4) The Sociological Problem of Pastoral Care	247	(3)
d) Authority and Freedom in the Empirical Church	250	(2)
e) The Church as a Distinct Sociological Type, and Its Place within the Sociological Typology	252	(15)
Church and Sect	267	(5)
f) Faith in the Sanctorum Communio and the `Experience of the Church'	272	(10)
4. Church and Eschatology	282	(8)
Editor's Afterword to the German Edition	290	(17)
Joachim von Soosten
Chronology	307	(3)
Bibliography	310	(40)
1. Literature Used by Bonhoeffer	310	(22)
2. Literature Consulted by the Editors	332	(11)
3. Other Literature Related to Sanctorum Communio	343	(7)
Index of Scriptural References	350	(4)
Index of Names	354	(5)
Index of Subjects	359	(12)
Editors and Translators	371