An edition of Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation (2012)

Bonhoeffer's theological formation

Berlin, Barth, and Protestant theology

1st ed.
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An edition of Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation (2012)

Bonhoeffer's theological formation

Berlin, Barth, and Protestant theology

1st ed.
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"Dietrich Bonhoeffer's dramatic biography, a son of privilege who suffered imprisonment and execution after involving himself in a conspiracy to kill Hitler and overthrow the Third Reich, has helped make him one of the most influential Christian figures of the twentieth century. But before he was known as a martyr or a hero, he was a student and teacher of theology. This book examines the academic formation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology, arguing that the young Bonhoeffer reinterpreted for a modern intellectual context the Lutheran understanding of the 'person' of Jesus Christ. In the process, Bonhoeffer not only distinguished himself from both Karl Barth and Karl Holl, whose dialectical theology and Luther interpretation respectively were two of the most important post-World War I theological movements, but also established the basic character of his own 'person-theology.' Barth convinces Bonhoeffer that theology must understand revelation as originating outside the human self in God's freedom. But whereas Barth understands revelation as the act of an eternal divine subject, Bonhoeffer treats revelation as the act and being of the historical person of Jesus Christ. On the basis of this person-concept of revelation, Bonhoeffer rejects Barth's dialectical thought, designed to respect the distinction between God and world, for a hermeneutical way of thinking that begins with the reconciliation of God and world in the person of Christ. Here Bonhoeffer mines a Lutheran understanding of the incarnation as God's unreserved entry into history, and the person of Christ as the resulting historical reconciliation of opposites. This also distinguishes Bonhoeffer's Lutheranism from that of Karl Holl, one of Bonhoeffer's teachers in Berlin, whose location of justification in the conscience renders the presence of Christ superfluous. Against this, Bonhoeffer emphasizes the present person of Christ as the precondition of justification. Through these critical conversations, Bonhoeffer develops the features of his person-theology -- a person-concept of revelation and a hermeneutical way of thinking -- which remain constant despite the sometimes radical changes in his thought."--Publisher's description.

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Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation: Berlin, Barth, and Protestant Theology
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2012, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Between Berlin and Barth
The problem of act and being
The challenge of Barth's theology
God is not subject but person : Bonhoeffer's alternative to Barth
The Lutheran provenance of Bonhoeffer's alternative
Evaluating Bonhoeffer's alternative
Claiming the Lutheran tradition
The academic roots of Bonhoeffer's ethical theology.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-153) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
230.044092
Library of Congress
BX4827.B57 D398 2012, BT40, BX4811.3 .D45 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 158 pages
Number of pages
158

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Open Library
OL28388633M
Internet Archive
bonhoefferstheol0000dejo
ISBN 10
0199639787
ISBN 13
9780199639786
OCLC/WorldCat
742512020
Wikidata
Q107368872

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