Research Catalog

Title

The Bonhoeffer reader / edited by Clifford J. Green and Michael P. DeJonge.

Author

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945

Publication

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• DeJonge, Michael P.
• Green, Clifford J.

Description

xiii, 860 pages; 23 cm

Summary

A one-volume collection of representative writings from the 16-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition, with references to the larger work for additional study.

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections. English. 2014
• Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

Works. 2014

Subjects

• History
• Theology
• Lutheran Church
• 1900 - 1999

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 823-836) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1. Student writings : Berlin, Barcelona, New York. Paper on historical and pneumatological interpretation of scripture -- Eulogy for Adolf von Harnack -- Sanctorum communio -- Jesus Christ and the essence of Christianity -- Basic questions of a Christian ethic -- Act and being -- Inaugural lecture : the anthropological question in contemporary philosophy and theology -- Lecture on "war" -- Concerning the Christian idea of God -- The theology of crisis and its attitude toward philosophy and science -- Part 2. University lectures. The history of twentieth-century systematic theology -- The nature of the church -- Creation and fall -- Lectures on christology -- Part 3. Ecumenical and pastoral writings. Report on a conference of the World Alliance -- Draft for a catechism : as you believe, so you receive -- The right to self-assertion -- Thy kingdom come! : the prayer of the church-community for God's kingdom on earth -- Christ and peace --^ Part 4. Theology and the Third Reich. The Führer and the individual in the younger generation -- The church and the Jewish question -- The Jewish-Christian question as status confessionis -- The Aryan paragraph in the church -- What should a student of theology do today? -- Fanø theses paper and address : the church and the peoples of the world -- The Confessing Church and the ecumenical movement -- Contemporizing New Testament texts -- On the question of church communion -- Part 5. Christian life and community. Discipleship -- Life together -- Prayerbook of the Bible -- Protestantism without Reformation -- Part 6. Christian ethics and public life. Christ, reality, and good : Christ, church, and world -- Ultimate and penultimate things -- Natural life -- History and good [2] -- The "ethical" and the "Christian" as a topic -- The concrete commandment and the divine mandates -- Theological position paper on state and church -- Theological position paper on the question of baptism --^ Theological position paper on the primus usus legis -- Part 7. Theology from prison : worldly, religionless Christianity. What does it mean to tell the truth? -- Speech of the major -- Letters and papers from prison -- Appendix: The German church struggle and resistance.

ISBN

• 9780800699451 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0800699459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781451430929 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 1451430922 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013034851

OCLC

• 863631991
• SCSB-12687143

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library