Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture

Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture

Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture

Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture

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Overview

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was one of the most compelling theologians of the twentieth century. A complex mix of scholarship and passion, his life and writings continue to fascinate and challenge Christians worldwide. He was a pastor and profound teacher and writer on Christian theology and ethics, yet was also involved in the resistance against Hitler which plotted his assassination. Bonhoeffer graduated from the University of Berlin and earned his doctorate in theology at the age of twenty-one. While pursuing postgraduate work at New York's Union Theological Seminary his life and ministry was profoundly influenced by his unanticipated involvement with the African American Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem during that time. Protesting the unconstitutional interference by Hitler of the established national Protestant church and the persecution of the Jews, and rejecting the alignment of the German Christian movement with the Nazi regime, Bonhoeffer became head of an underground seminary for the resisting Confessing Church in Germany. At the 2012 Wheaton Theology Conference, Bonhoeffer's thought and ministry were explored in stimulating presentations. Bonhoeffer's views of Jesus Christ, the Christian community, and the church's engagement with culture enjoyed special focus. Throughout it is clear that in the twenty-first century, Bonhoeffer's legacy is as provocative and powerful as ever.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780830864577
Publisher: IVP Academic
Publication date: 11/30/2012
Series: Wheaton Theology Conference Series
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 216
File size: 431 KB

About the Author

Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College. He has been a visiting fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge University, and All Souls College, Oxford University. His monographs include Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England and, most recently, A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians (Oxford University Press).


Keith L. Johnson (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is associate professor of theology at Wheaton College. His research focuses on systematic theology, including the doctrines of the Trinity and Christology and the relationship between Protestant and Roman Catholic theology. He is author of Karl Barth and the Analogia Entis and coeditor of Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture. An ordained Baptist minister, he and his wife Julie have one son.


Keith L. Johnson (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is associate professor of theology at Wheaton College. His research focuses on systematic theology, including the doctrines of the Trinity and Christology and the relationship between Protestant and Roman Catholic theology. He is author of Karl Barth and the Analogia Entis and coeditor of Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture. An ordained Baptist minister, he and his wife Julie have one son.


Timothy Larsen (PhD, University of Stirling; DD, University of Edinburgh) is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College. His many books include George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles, Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, and The Oxford Handbook of Christmas.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction - Keith L. Johnson and Timothy Larsen
2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Theologian of the Word of God - Philip G. Ziegler
3. The Evangelical Reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Timothy Larsen
4. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Christ - Reggie L. Williams
5. The Evangelization of Rulers: Bonhoeffer's Political Theology - Stephen J. Plant
6. Modernity's Machine: Technology Coming of Age in Bonhoeffer's Apocalyptic Proverbs - Daniel J. Treier
7. Death Together: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Becoming the Church for Others - Joel Lawrence
8. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Under the Constraint of Grace - Charles Marsh
9. Bonhoffer and the End of the Christian Academy - Keith L. Johnson
10. Bonhoeffer's Christological Take on Vocation - Lori Brandt Hale
11. The Secret of Finkenwalde: Liturgical Treason - Jim Belcher

What People are Saying About This

John W. de Gruchy

"Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture has its origin within the North American evangelical scholarly community, though not all its authors would identify themselves as such. What unites them is their deep appreciation for Bonhoeffer's life, witness and theology, the integrity of their scholarship, and their recognition of Bonhoeffer's continuing significance for the church in the twenty-first century. Having spent the past fifty years of my life engaged in dialogue with Bonhoeffer's legacy, I am delighted to be introduced to new perspectives and interpretations, and to learn again from those whose contribution to Bonhoeffer studies is now well established. I commend it to all who want to know Bonhoeffer better."

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