Appointments with Bonhoeffer: personal faith and public responsibility in a fragmenting world
Who is Dietrich Bonhoeffer for us today? -- After martyrdom : Bonhoeffer's posthumous journey through Cold War East Europe -- Public ethics and the reception of Bonhoeffer in Britain -- Centuries apart yet neighbours in spirit : the worldly holiness of Thomas Traherne and Dietrich Bonhoeffer --...
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| Language: | English |
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2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | T&T Clark new studies in Bonhoeffer's theology and ethics
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Public Theology
B Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945) B Christian Ethics |
| Summary: | Who is Dietrich Bonhoeffer for us today? -- After martyrdom : Bonhoeffer's posthumous journey through Cold War East Europe -- Public ethics and the reception of Bonhoeffer in Britain -- Centuries apart yet neighbours in spirit : the worldly holiness of Thomas Traherne and Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- 'If you English had read him you would not have needed to read Karl Barth' : Bonhoeffer on the Catholic Modernist Friedrich von Hügel -- Between a Confessing Church and contextual ethics : Bonhoeffer, the crisis of 1934 and the continuing ecumenical quest for a public theology -- 'What does it mean to tell the truth?' The 2015 allegation against Bishop George Bell in the light of Bonhoeffer's 1943 prison essay -- From east and west, from north and south : the gospel subverting tribalism -- Life together, life for others : Bonhoeffer's wisdom for ministry in a post-Christian world -- Belonging wholly to the world : the still unrealised ecumenical calling -- 'The burning fire of love, the nucleus of reconciliation' : re-learning what love means -- Ultimate and penultimate : some Bonhoefferian insights for faith and democracy in a time of extremisms -- The 'who am I?' question writ large : Britain, Europe and the churches -- 'Are we still of any use?' Words for failing public servants and frightened citizens -- A new ethic--or the end of ethics? Love against the plague. "Keith Clements sets out how and why Dietrich Bonhoeffer, more than 75 years after his execution by the Nazis, still speaks cogently both to the churches and society. Beginning with the earlier reception of him as a martyr-figure and then as a provocatively original theologian, the book argues his relevance to contemporary engagement with public ethics, ecumenism, truth-telling and reconciliation, the relation between faith and democracy in a time of political extremisms, the issues of national identity signalled by Brexit, and the challenge of finding an ethical response to such challenges as the global pandemic. Bonhoeffer's perception that living representatively on behalf of others is both the key to who God is as known in Jesus Christ, and the basis of all truly human community - this provides the connecting thread running through these chapters on what it means to believe and be responsible in a fragmenting world. Clements also links this thread to the 17th century spiritual writer Thomas Traherne and the Catholic Modernist Friedrich von Hügel"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0567707059 |