Religion, Religionlessness and Contemporary Western Culture: Explorations in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Theology

ISBN-13: 9783631577547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 134 str.

Stephen Plant;Ralf K. Wuestenberg

Opis

This first volume of the new series International Bonhoeffer Interpretations (IBI) contains several impulses for translating Bonhoeffer s key ideas on Religion, Religionlessness and the Church into current contexts. These impulses vary from prospects for a Christian university looking at Bonhoeffer s distinction between the ultimate and the penultimate things to an ethical understanding of Bonhoeffer s as-if-theology in the light of Luther s distinction between law and gospel; from a fresh perspective on Bonhoeffer s religionless Christianity in the light of his thought on oikumene to a Christological re-interpretation of repentance as the contribution of religionless Christianity to the task of the Church in the United States of America. The impulses are framed by programmatic contributions suggesting a framework for reading Bonhoeffer in the 21st century in his hermeneutic exploration of Bonhoeffer s theology and the crises of Western culture, and analyzing religionless Christianity in a complexly religious and secular world."

Spis treści

Contents: Jens Zimmermann: Beyond Fundamentalism and Postmodernism: Bonhoeffer's Theology and the Crisis of Western Culture - Craig J. Slane: Existing for God in an Age of Theology's Disestablishment: Prospects for the Christian University - Jochen Bohn: Bonhoeffer's Religionlessness: Foundation of an as-if Theology - Ursula O'Donovan: Bonhoeffer's «Religionless Christianity» and his «Non-religious Interpretation of Biblical Concepts» in the Light of his Concept of oikoumene - Jennifer McBride: Thinking within the Movement of Bonhoeffer's Theology: Towards a Christological Reinterpretation of Repentance - Tom Greggs: Religionless Christianity in a Complexly Religious and Secular World: Thinking through and beyond Bonhoeffer.

O autorze

The Editors: Stephen Plant is Senior Tutor and Director of Studies at Wesley House in the Cambridge Theological Federation, an Affiliated Lecturer in the university of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity, and a Senior Member of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He is a graduate of Birmingham and Cambridge universities and has worked in local ministry and as Europe Secretary for the Methodist Church. He writes regularly for The Times newspaper, and is the author of several books.
Ralf K. Wüstenberg is Director of the Institute for Protestant Theology and Visiting Professor for Systematic Theology at Freie Universität Berlin. He is a graduate of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Ph.D. 1995) and the university of Heidelberg (Habilitation 2003). In 1999 he was Research Fellow at the university of Cape Town and in 2002 the Visiting Bonhoeffer Teaching Scholar at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He is author of several books.