Luther, Bonhoeffer, and Public Ethics

Michael P. DeJonge is professor and chair of religious studies at the University of South Florida.Clifford J. Green is Bonhoeffer Chair Scholar at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and project director of the Early Career German-American Bonhoeffer Research Network.

• 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.