What might the often cited phrases from Dietrich Bonhoeffer s prison theology mean for the ethical discourse at the beginning of the 21st century? Which hermeneutical concepts might enable contemporary religious thinkers to enter into a dialogue with Bonhoeffer s thought? This collection of lectures will address questions like these both by examining the intellectual, cultural and historical origins of Bonhoeffer s Tegel Theology and by drawing out the ethical consequences of Bonhoeffer s contribution for current political discourses. Going Bonhoeffer and Beyond as the title indicates...

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...