Luther, Bonhoeffer, and Public Ethics

Re-Forming the Church of the Future

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, this book examines the legacy of Martin Luther in the life, work, and reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the most widely read modern Lutheran theologian. Framing the commemoration of the Reformation in conversation with Bonhoeffer’s legacy places much more than Bonhoeffer’s connection to Luther at stake. Given the fraught relationship of the Lutheran Bonhoeffer with the German Protestant Church under National Socialism, the question inevitably arises: “What happened to Luther’s church in Germany?” This in turn prompts the question: “How did the Protestant tradition play out in public life in other nations?” And these historical issues in turn encourage reflection on a question that exercised both Luther and Bonhoeffer: “What will be the shape of the church in the future?” In these pages, an international group of scholars and practitioners from both church and state pursues these questions.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-15
Mått162 x 239 x 24 mm
Vikt531 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor246
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781978703452

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Introduction: Reformation: Grappling with a Contested LegacyMichael P. DeJonge and Clifford J. Green1. Fatal Coincidences in 1933: Nazism’s Triumph and Luther’s 450th BirthdayHartmut Lehmann2. Looking for Luther, 1933–1939Victoria J. Barnett3. Luther in Catholic Perspective across Five CenturiesEuan Cameron4. Justification, Ethics, and the “Other”: Paul, Luther, and Bonhoeffer in TrialogueBrigitte Kahl5. Radicalizing Reformation amid Today’s Crises, in the Spirit of BonhoefferKaren L. Bloomquist6. Worldly Worship: Reformation and Economic EthicsWolfgang Huber7. Reformation: Freeing the Church for Authentic Public WitnessHeinrich Bedford-Strohm8. Between Compromise and Radicalism: Luther’s Legacy in Bonhoeffer’s Political ThoughtMichael P. DeJonge9. Church, Racism and Resistance: Bonhoeffer and the Critical Dimension of Theological IntegrityAllen Aubrey Boesak10. “On the Way to Freedom Land”: Bonhoeffer and Three Bright Lights of the Civil Rights Move

This rich collection of substantive and expert essays explores both Bonhoeffer’s complex relation to the traditions of Lutheran faith as well as the ways in which, refracted through his own work, impulses from this same Reformation faith press upon important contemporary questions in church and public life. Students of Bonhoeffer’s theology and all those wrestling with the shape of public theology today will welcome the instruction, provocation, and encouragement this volume provides.