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Bonhoeffer's Questions
A Life-Changing Conversation
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2019
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While in prison during the Third Reich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer raised several “core questions” in his correspondence with his close friend Eberhard Bethge: How shall future generations live? Who is Jesus Christ actually, for us, today? What does it mean to be truly human? And who am I? In Bonhoeffer’s Questions, John W. de Gruchy explores the development of each question in the course of Bonhoeffer’s life, how he attempted to answer them, and how each prompted further questions in an ongoing conversation with himself, with others, and now with us today. De Gruchy does this within the framework of his own life-long and life-changing conversation with Bonhoeffer in the context of South Africa from the beginning of the apartheid era to the present day. He also describes how he has come to know Bonhoeffer as a theological witness to Christ, a prophet of God’s justice, and a Christian humanist before proceeding with a series of questions addressed to Bonhoeffer with the reader in mind. These range from the debate about God and the future of Christianity to the involvement of Christians and the church in political struggles today.
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2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0783-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0784-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
199
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter One: Questions That Changed My Life No access
Chapter Two: Bonhoeffer’s Core Questions No access
Chapter Three: Participating in the Conversation No access
Chapter Four: Theological Witness to Christ No access
Chapter Five: Prophet of God’s Justice and Peace No access
Chapter Six: Christian Humanist No access
Chapter Seven: Who Is God; How Do We Know; and Do We Need “Him”? No access
Chapter Eight: What Is a Christian, and Where Is the Church? No access
Chapter Nine: How Do Faith and Politics Mix? No access
Chapter Ten: How Do We Resist Tyranny and Build Democracy? No access
Postscript: One Last Question No access Pages 175 - 178
