Christ, Church, and World

Bonhoeffer and Lutheran Ecclesiology after Christendom

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvTheodore J. Hopkins

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As the North American church struggles to navigate the emerging post-Christian context, Theodore J. Hopkins argues that the church is identified by three fundamental relationships: Christ-church-world. By attending to the Christological center of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theology, Hopkins establishes a framework for the church’s mission in the world that flows from Christ’s relationship to the church and his relationship to the world. This Christological framework also illuminates the changing relationship between the church and the world in Bonhoeffer’s works, such that Discipleship seems to demarcate the church from the world while Ethics seems to unite church and world in one Christ-reality. Following Bonhoeffer, Hopkins contends that the church is both distinct from the world and in solidarity with it in the dynamic of the crucified Lord Jesus who took the form of a servant and is present in Word, Sacrament, and community as the Risen One. Hopkins envisions the church within the story of Jesus so that preaching and teaching the Gospel identifies the church and calls it to faithfulness in Christ’s own mission. The church is formed to see itself and the world in Jesus and enabled to follow Christ’s mission of witness and service in the world.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-10-11
Mått163 x 227 x 21 mm
Vikt562 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781978708587

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For better or worse, the word on the street is that Lutherans have yet to come up with a robust ecclesiology! But before getting ahead of ourselves with such a big project, Hopkins asks us to step back and ask what being the church even means today. In dialogue with Bonhoeffer and others, he argues that without a clear account of Christ's relationship to his church in his world, not only Lutherans but Christians in the U.S. have either become like the world without the church or like the church without the world. Hopkins calls the North American church to repentance for succumbing to such reductionisms, which end up replacing the church's story with political ideologies or therapeutic ends. More importantly, Hopkins offers us a wonderful grammar grounded in God's story of creation to reimagine what it means not only to talk about the church but to be formed as the church in the likeness of Christ for the sake of the world.