Taking stock of Bonhoeffer
Subtitle: studies in biblical interpretation and ethics
By: by Stephen J. Plant
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781409441052; 9781409441069; 9781409441076; 9781409471196
Subjects: Ethik; Teologer; Exegese; Exegetik; Etik
Work titles: Essays
Description: Bonhoeffer's theology continues to prove richly fruitful in the 21st century. This book gathers together Stephen Plant's scholarly engagement with Bonhoeffer's life and theology over two decades. This collection makes accessible distinctive perspective on Bonhoeffer's theology, in particular on the key themes of biblical hermeneutics, ethics, and the intimate connections Bonhoeffer discerns between them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Historical context. Bonhoeffer and Moltke : politics and faith in a time of crisis; title: An article marking the centenary of Bonhoeffer's birth : faith, political duty and one man's costly grace; title: Part II. Bonhoeffer and the Bible. How theologians decide : German theologians on the eve of Nazi rule; title: 'In the Bible it is God who speaks' : Peake and Bonhoeffer on reading scripture : the A.S. Peake Memorial Lecture 2006; title: Guilt and promise in Bonhoeffer's 'Jonah'; title: The evangelisation of rulers : Bonhoeffer's political theology; title: Part III. Bonhoeffer and ethics. Ethics and materialist hermeneutics; title: The sacrament of ethical reality : Dietrich Bonhoeffer on ethics for Christian citizens; title: Bonhoeffer's interfaith encounters; title: 'In the sphere of the familiar' : Heidegger and Bonhoeffer; title: Part IV. Taking stock. Reading Bonhoeffer in Britain.