Bonhoeffer and Beyond

The Author: Ralf K. Wüstenberg is Director of the Institute for Protestant Theology and Visiting Professor for Systematic Theology at Freie Universität Berlin. He is a graduate of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Ph.D. 1995) and the university of Heidelberg (Habilitation 2003). In 1999 he was Research Fellow at the university of Cape Town and in 2002 the Visiting Bonhoeffer Teaching Scholar at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He is author of several books.

• Contents: Doing Theology with Bonhoeffer: Religion, Religionlessness and Religious Pluralism – Promoting a Dialogue Between Religion and Politics: Bonhoeffer’s Distinction Between the ‘Ultimate and the Penultimate Things’ – Reconstructing the Doctrine of Reconciliation Within Politics - The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa as a Case-study.

«Wüstenbergs Buch zeigt in gelungener Weise, dass sich Bonhoeffers Denken bis heute im Rahmen von theologischen und politischen Diskursen und Herausforderungen als fruchtbar erweist.» (Peter Zimmerling, Theologische Revue 108, 2012/6)