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Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context
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2020
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The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer understood Western civilization to be “approaching a completely religionless age” to which Christians must respond and adapt. This book explores Bonhoeffer’s own response to this challenge—his concept of a religionless Christianity—and its place in his broader theology. It does this, first, by situating the concept in a present-day Western socio-historical context. It then considers Bonhoeffer’s understanding and critique of religion, before examining the religionless Christianity of his final months in the light of his earlier Christ-centred theology. The place of mystery, paradox, and wholeness in Bonhoeffer’s thinking is also given careful attention, and non-religious interpretation is taken seriously as an ongoing task. The book aspires to present religionless Christianity as a lucid and persuasive contemporary theology; and does this always in the presence of the question which inspired Bonhoeffer’s theological journey from its academic beginnings to its very deliberately lived end—the question “Who is Jesus Christ?”
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0933-1
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978-1-9787-0934-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
212
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter 1 “We Are Approaching a Completely Religionless Age” No access Pages 9 - 34
Chapter 2 Bonhoeffer’s Critique of Religion No access Pages 35 - 68
Chapter 3 Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context No access Pages 69 - 114
Chapter 4 Nonreligious Interpretation No access Pages 115 - 140
Chapter 5 Mystery, Faith, and Wholeness No access Pages 141 - 162
Chapter 6 Christ without Religion No access Pages 163 - 198
