The Bonhoeffer Reader

by Michael P. DeJonge, Clifford J. Green

Overview

For the first time the essential theological writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer have been drawn together in a helpful one-volume format. The Bonhoeffer Reader brings the best English translation to students, and provides a ready-made introduction to the thought of this essential thinker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800699451
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	11/01/2013
Pages:	832
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Michael P. DeJonge is associate professor of religious studies and graduate director at the University of South Florida. Michael earned a Ph.D. in Religion from Emory University, having also undertaken doctoral work at the Freie Universitat in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar. He is the author of Bonhoeffer"s Theological Formation (2012).

Clifford J. Green is professor emeritus of theology, Hartford Seminary, Connecticut, and author of numerous works on Bonhoeffer. He is the executive director of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works.

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