Table of Contents
Preface ix
Abbreviations xiii
Part 1 Student Writings: Berlin, Barcelona, New York
1 Paper on Historical and Pneumatological Interpretation of Scripture 3
2 Eulogy for Adolf von Harnack 15
3 Sanctorum Communio 18
4 Jesus Christ and the Essence of Christianity 57
5 Basic Questions of a Christian Ethic 74
6 Act and Being 92
7 Inaugural Lecture: The Anthropological Question in Contemporary Philosophy and Theology 110
8 Lecture on "War" 128
9 Concerning the Christian Idea of God 135
10 The Theology of Crisis and Its Attitude toward Philosophy and Science 143
Part 2 University Lectures
11 The History of Twentieth-Century Systematic Theology 159
12 The Nature of the Church 171
13 Creation and Fall 210
14 Lectures on Christology 261
Part 3 Ecumenical and Pastoral Writings
15 Report on a Conference of the World Alliance 317
16 Draft for a Catechism: As You Believe, So You Receive 322
17 The Right to Self-Assertion 330
18 Thy Kingdom Come! The Prayer of the Church-Community for God's Kingdom on Earth 340
19 Christ and Peace 352
Part 4 Theology and the Third Reich
20 The Fuhrer and the Individual in the Younger Generation 359
21 The Church and the Jewish Question 370
22 The Jewish-Christian Question as Status Confessionis 379
23 The Aryan Paragraph in the Church 382
24 What Should a Student of Theology Do Today? 389
25 Fanø Theses Paper and Address: The Church and the Peoples of the World 393
26 The Confessing Church and the Ecumenical Movement 398
27 Contemporizing New Testament Texts 415
28 On the Question of Church Communion 432
Part 5 Christian Life and Community
29 Discipleship 455
30 Life Together 514
31 Prayerbook of the Bible 562
32 Protestantism without Reformation 568
Part 6 Christian Ethics and Public Life
33 Christ, Reality, and Good. Christ, Church, and World 594
34 Ultimate and Penultimate Things 613
35 Natural Life 631
36 History and Good [2] 636
37 The "Ethical" and the "Christian" as a Topic 667
38 The Concrete Commandment and the Divine Mandates 685
39 Theological Position Paper on State and Church 699
40 Theological Position Paper on the Question of Baptism 717
41 Theological Position Paper on the Primus Usus Legis 733
Part 7 Theology from Prison: Worldly, Religionless Christianity
42 What Does It Mean to Tell the Truth? 749
43 Speech of the Major 757
44 Letters and Papers from Prison 761
Appendix: The German Church Struggle and Resistance 819
Bibliography 823
Index of Biblical References 837
Index of Names 843
Index of Subjects 849