Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Author: Wolf Krötke
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493416790

Wolf Krötke, a foremost interpreter of the theologies of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, demonstrates the continuing significance of these two theologians for Christian faith and life. This book enables readers to look with fresh eyes at the theologies of Barth and Bonhoeffer and offers new insights for reading the history of modern theology. It also helps churches see how they can be creative minorities in societies that have forgotten God. Translated by a senior American scholar of Christian theology, this is the first major translation of Krötke's work in the English language. The book includes a foreword by George Hunsinger.

Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics

Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics
Author: Joshua Mauldin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0198867514

This innovative study brings together two areas of discourse that have not been connected before: interpretations of Barth and Bonhoeffer on one hand and narratives of modernity on the other.

Karl Barth in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Karl Barth in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Author: Andreas Pangritz
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2018-09-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532617348

This important work explores the complex relationship between two of the twentieth century’s most formidable Christian thinkers—Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Seizing on a much-discussed criticism that Bonhoeffer made of Barth’s theology in his prison letters—that Barth was guilty of a “positivism of revelation”—Andreas Pangritz challenges scholars who have used this statement, despite being left undeveloped by Bonhoeffer, as a wedge to separate the two theologians. Through a careful study of Barth’s and Bonhoeffer’s works, of their correspondence, and of Barth’s comments and revisions after Bonhoeffer’s death, Pangritz clarifies the close yet sometimes strained relationship between Barth and Bonhoeffer and cautiously makes the case that Bonhoeffer’s criticism has been overemphasized and did not mark a significant breach between the two great theologians. Much more than a study of a disputed discourse in historical theology, this engaging volume also raises concerns of continuing relevance regarding the role of theology in our secular society.

Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation

Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation
Author: Michael P. DeJonge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2012-02-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199639787

A detailed examination of the academic formation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology, arguing that the young Bonhoeffer reinterpreted for a modern intellectual context the Lutheran understanding of the 'person' of Jesus Christ and distinguishing Bonhoeffer's theology from that of contemporaries Karl Barth and Karl Holl.

Strange Glory

Strange Glory
Author: Charles Marsh
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307390381

Winner, Christianity Today 2015 Book Award in History/Biography Shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. With unprecedented archival access and definitive scope, Charles Marsh captures the life of this remarkable man who searched for the goodness in his religion against the backdrop of a steadily darkening Europe. From his brilliant student days in Berlin to his transformative sojourn in America, across Harlem to the Jim Crow South, and finally once again to Germany where he was called to a ministry for the downtrodden, we follow Bonhoeffer on his search for true fellowship and observe the development of his teachings on the shared life in Christ. We witness his growing convictions and theological beliefs, culminating in his vocal denunciation of Germany’s treatment of the Jews that would put him on a crash course with Hitler. Bringing to life for the first time this complex human being—his substantial flaws, inner torment, the friendships and the faith that sustained and finally redeemed him—Strange Glory is a momentous achievement.

Karl Barth and Liberation Theology

Karl Barth and Liberation Theology
Author: Paul Dafydd Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2022-12-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567698807

This volume puts Barth and liberation theologies in critical and constructive conversation. With incisive essays from a range of noted scholars, it forges new connections between Barth's expansive corpus and the multifaceted world of Christian liberation theology. It shows how Barth and liberation theologians can help us to make sense of – and perhaps even to respond to – some of the most pressing issues of our day: race and racism in the United States; changing understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality; the ongoing degradation of the ecosphere; the relationship between faith, theological reflection, and the arts; the challenge of decolonizing Christian thought; and ecclesial and political life in the Global South.

The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Author: John D. Godsey
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725235641

Godsey's seminal study is the first dissertation to be written on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology. It first appeared in 1960 when Bonhoeffer's name was relatively new in English-language circles. This work, which surveyed the entire Bonhoeffer corpus available at the time, quickly became a standard text that laid the groundwork for Bonhoeffer studies thereafter. Godsey explores Bonhoeffer's life and the key themes of his Christocentric theology, providing an introduction to mid-century Protestant theology, and showing how Bonhoeffer's theology can serve as a resource for those who seek to engage theology with the world. In the intervening years since its publication, Bonhoeffer scholarship has progressed, but much of what we think about Bonhoeffer's theology can be found in the pages of this work. Bonhoeffer's life and work bear witness to the fact that the church cannot live on "cheap grace," but only on the present Christ.

Preaching in Hitler's Shadow

Preaching in Hitler's Shadow
Author: Dean G. Stroud
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2013-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802869025

What did German preachers opposed to Hitler say in their Sunday sermons? When the truth of Christ could cost a pastor his life, what words encouraged and challenged him and his congregation? This book answers those questions. Preaching in Hitler's Shadow begins with a fascinating look at Christian life inside the Third Reich, giving readers a real sense of the danger that pastors faced every time they went into the pulpit. Dean Stroud pays special attention to the role that language played in the battle over the German soul, pointing out the use of Christian language in opposition to Nazi rhetoric. The second part of the book presents thirteen well-translated sermons by various select preachers, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann, and others not as well known but no less courageous. A running commentary offers cultural and historical insights, and each sermon is preceded by a short biography of the preacher.

Theology Against Religion

Theology Against Religion
Author: Tom Greggs
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-12-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567104230

A constructive approach from a theological perspective about the category of religion in Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth.

The Legacy of the Barmen Declaration

The Legacy of the Barmen Declaration
Author: Fred Dallmayr
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1793601348

In 1934, during the Nazi regime in Germany, members of the Confessing Church issued the Declaration of Barmen, which reaffirmed their primary loyalty to the word of God. With their action, they established a legacy for future generations to follow in similar situations.This volume examines the historical, political, and theological context of the creation of the Barmen Declaration, as it constituted an act of theological and political resistance against tyranny, terror, and fascism. The work of the Barmen Declaration demonstrated clearly and powerfully the "this-worldly" ethical and political salience of religion and theology to empower witness, resistance, and solidarity. Containing contributions from an inclusive array of renowned scholars, the volume unfolds the lasting legacy and continued relevance of Barmen.