Discipleship and Unity

Cole Jodon

doi:10.5771/9781978711952

Summary

Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology presents a fresh approach to church unity and discipleship from a familiar voice. Building constructively from the thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cole Jodon offers an account of ecumenism in which the church is understood to be united as the person of Christ — a unity that is concrete today through active obedient discipleship. To develop this theology, Jodon draws from Bonhoeffer’s ecumenical engagement, which is deepened through the theology of Bonhoeffer’s wider corpus. Jodon illumines Bonhoeffer’s dynamic understanding of the church, its unity, and the manner in which that unity is made concrete in the world. At its heart, this book serves to advance an ecumenical theology enlivened by the living and present Christ who calls his church to follow after him together.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1194-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1195-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 186
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. 1. Works by Bonhoeffer No access
  2. World Council of Churches No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
1. Christus Praesens as an Identifier of Bonhoeffer’s Ecclesiology No access
2. 1. 1. The Concept of Person at the Individual Level No access
    2. The Concept of Person at the Collective Level No access
  2. Bonhoeffer’s Concept of Revelation No access
  3. 1. Christ’s Presence in the Church as Word No access
    2. Christ’s Presence in the Church as Sacrament No access
    3. Christ’s Presence in the Church as Church-Community No access
3. 1. Christ and the Church Over-identified? No access
  2. Does Ecclesiology Undermine Ecumenism? No access
4. Conclusion No access
1. Bonhoeffer’s Account of Church Unity No access
2. 1. Person and Church Unity No access
  2. Revelation and Church Unity No access
  3. The Revelatory Person of Christ and Church Unity No access
3. Conclusion No access
1. Bonhoeffer’s Understanding of “Visibility” No access
2. 1. Founding the Visible Church: The Work of God No access
  2. The Work of Human Agency in the Visible Church No access
3. Sin and Bonhoeffer’s Account of the Visible Church No access
4. Conclusion No access
1. 1. The Christological Orientation of Discipleship No access
  2. Concrete Command and Simple Obedience No access
  3. Ecclesiology and Discipleship No access
  4. Ecclesial Sinfulness and the Forgiveness of Sins No access
2. 1. Discipleship in “On the Theological Foundation of the Work of the World Alliance”—July 1932 No access
  2. Discipleship in “Address in Gland”—August 1932 No access
  3. Discipleship in “Address to the Fano Conference: English Transcription”—1934 No access
  4. Discipleship in “The Confessing Church and the Ecumenical Movement”—1935 No access
3. Conclusion No access
1. 1. The Christological Governance of Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenism of Discipleship No access
  2. Doing and Proclaiming Christ’s Commands: The Goal of Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenism of Discipleship No access
  3. The Internal Ordering of Ecumenical Relations No access
  4. The External Ordering of Ecumenism to (and for) the World No access
  5. The Global and Local Scale of Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenism of Discipleship No access
  6. 1. The Versatility of the Christological Governance of Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenism No access
    2. The Versatility of Focusing on Hearing and Doing Christ’s Command No access
    3. The Versatility of the Internal Ordering of Ecumenical Relations No access
    4. The Versatility of the External Ordering of Ecumenical Relations No access
    5. The Versatility of the Global and Local Scope of Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenism of Discipleship No access
  7. The Accountability Afforded by Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenism of Discipleship No access
2. Case Study: An Instance of Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology in Practice No access
3. Synthesis of Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenism of Discipleship No access
4. Conclusion No access
1. Bonhoeffer and the Declining Interest in Traditional Ecumenism No access
2. Bonhoeffer and the WCC’s Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace No access
3. Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology and the Shift of the Global Center of Christianity No access
Bibliography No access Pages 169 - 180
Index No access Pages 181 - 184
About the Author No access Pages 185 - 186