Title: Understanding Bonhoeffer /
Authors: Frick, Peter.
Year: 2017
Subjects: Bonhoeffer, Dietrich,; Bonhoeffer, Dietrich,; Theology, Doctrinal History; Theology, Doctrinal
Abstract: "How are we to understand Bonhoeffer? In these essays, Peter Frick attempts to answer this question by examining different aspects of Bonhoeffer's thought, thus illuminating the hermeneutical, philosophical, theological, and social dimensions of his writings. All sixteen essays collected here were written between 2007 and 2014; some of them address the question of methodology, others contribute to Bonhoeffer's intellectual formation, and still others seek to connect with contemporary questions. The aim of the volume is to present Bonhoeffer's key theological and philosophical ideas, and to emphasize their contemporary relevance."--From the publisher.
Contents: Understanding Bonhoeffer -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Engaging Intellect : Legendary Life -- Reading Bonhoeffer -- Understanding Bonhoeffer : from Default to Hermeneutic Reading -- Interpretatio quaerens intellectum : ‘Translation Seeking Understanding’ : The Hermeneutics of Translating Bonhoeffer -- Backgrounding Bonhoeffer -- The Imitatio Christi of Thomas à Kempis and Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Friedrich Nietzsche’s Aphorisms and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theology -- Nietzsche’s Übermensch and Bonhoeffer’s mündiger Mensch : Are They of Any Use for a Contemporary Christian Anthropology? -- Rudolf Bultmann, Paul Tillich and Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Gerhard Ebeling : An Encounter of Theological Minds -- Bonhoeffer and Philosophy -- Foregrounding Bonhoeffer -- Notes on Bonhoeffer’s Theological Anthropology : The Case of Racism -- Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Economic Humanism : An Exploration in Interdisciplinary Sociality -- Bonhoeffer, Theology and Religion : What do they Teach us for a South-North Dialogue? -- Bonhoeffer on the Social-Political Dimension of Grace -- What does Hiroshima have to do with Berlin? Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Theology, Peace and Social Responsibility -- Bonhoeffer as Preacher: Philosophy and Theology in the Service of the Sermon – Conclusion -- The Way of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Fragmentary Wholeness.