Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation: Berlin, Barth, and Protestant Theology

ISBN-13: 9780199639786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 208 str.

Michael P. Dejonge

Opis

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.'

Recenzje

... a welcome examination of Bonhoeffer's habilitation thesis, Act and Being. Before this slim volume was published in 2012, no thorough reading and interpretation of this piece of Bonhoeffer's oeuvre had appeared ... a volume tackling Act and Being has therefore been much needed, and Dejonge successfully makes his case about why this is so.