“In the Face of Barbarism”

Dallas Gingles is Assistant Dean of Hybrid Education, Associate Professor of Practice in Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, USA.Michael DeJonge is the James E. Strange Endowed Chair of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, USA

• List of FigureAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction – Dallas Gingles (Southern Methodist University, USA) and Michael DeJonge (University of South Florida, USA)Section One: Bonhoeffer as Ethicist1. Bonhoeffer's Challenge to Nation and Culture – Victoria Barnett (United States Holocaust Museum, USA – retired)2. What Does It Mean to Tell the Truth?: An Exemplary Realization of Bonhoeffer’s Everyday Ethics – Gunter Prüller-Jagenteufel (University of Vienna, Austria)3. The Pedagogue Leading up to Christ: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Educative Purpose of Human Law” – Esther Reed (University of Exeter, UK)Section Two: Between Bonhoeffer and Everyday Life4. Before Resistance: Bonhoeffer on the Cultivation of Everyday Life – Michael DeJonge (University of South Florida, USA)5. Responsibility: The Ethics of Everyday Life – Dallas Gingles (Southern Methodist University, USA)6. Bonhoeffer on the State (Robin Lovin, Southern Methodist University, USA – retired)7. Telling the Truth in the Face of Social and Political Pressure: Lessons from Bonhoeffer (Joshua Mauldin ,Center of Theological Inquiry, USA)8. Citizenship and its Discontents: Bonhoeffer’s Lessons for Christological Politics in a Liberal State (Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia, USA)Notes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

The time is ripe for Bonhoeffer. But, as this provocative collection shows and interrogates, there are many Bonhoeffers. At once historical and constructive, these essays make a compelling case for the place of the ordinary in his theological ethics. The result is a richer portrait of Bonhoeffer’s extraordinary Lutheran vision and witness.