Being and Action Coram Deo

Koert Verhagen is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Taylor University, USA

• Chapter 1Backgrounding Bonhoeffer: Martin Luther on Justification’s Import for AnthropologyChapter 2Justified in Christ and Church: The Shape of Bonhoeffer’s Early AnthropologyChapter 3Justification Against Weltanschauung: Bonhoeffer’s Evaluation of Competing AnthropologiesChapter 4 From Anthropology to Ethics: A Pauline Case for Continuity in BonhoefferChapter 5Justification and Witness-Bearing: Discipleship as Embodied Participation in ChristChapter 6 Reconciling Church and World: Justification’s Coordination of the Ultimate and PenultimateChapter 7Justification Against White Supremacy: Retrieval as Critical CorrectiveBibliographyIndex

Verhagen’s clearly structured, well-written and intelligently argued monograph, the first to tackle the central evangelical doctrine of justification in Bonhoeffer’s thought, is an excellent addition to T&T Clark’s steadily expanding New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics series.