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Bonhoeffer's New Beginning
Ethics after Devastation
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2018
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Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning investigates the ethics of making new beginnings after devastating moral rupture. The work argues that new beginnings must be made in order to sustain the fundamental convictions that it is good to exist and that life in the world with others should be loved without exclusion. Bonhoeffer’s ethics of new beginning is set in conversation with the thought of four moral philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Jonathan Glover, and Jonathan Lear. DeCort argues that Bonhoeffer’s ethics of new beginning opens and energizes a more promising, world-affirming moral vision with radical hope for new beginnings vis-à-vis the perceived absence of God in the face of devastation.
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Copyright year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0099-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0100-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
262
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
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Beginning No access
Introduction. Our Overall Take on Human Life: The Problem of Morality and the Ethics of New Beginning No access
Chapter One. The Trial: Universal Entry and the Problem of Morality No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter Two. Four Options: The Problem of Morality and the Ethics of New Beginning in Nietzsche, Arendt, Glover, and Lear No access Pages 13 - 46
Chapter Three. “A Rift Irreparable through Human Initiative”: Devastation and the Human (In)Capacity to Make a New Beginning in Bonhoeffer’s Thought No access Pages 47 - 82
Chapter Four. “Only with God Is There a New Way, a New Beginning”: Justification and Guidance for New Beginning in Bonhoeffer’s Thought No access Pages 83 - 120
Chapter Five. “The Dawning of the New World, the New Order”: Practices of New Beginning in Bonhoeffer’s Thought No access Pages 121 - 188
Conclusion. After the Beginning: The Problem of Morality, Divine Absence, and the Ethics of New Beginning after Devastation No access Pages 189 - 218
Beginning Anew No access Pages 219 - 224
Appendix. Bonhoeffer’s Last Words: A Personal Testament and Theological Summary? No access Pages 225 - 228
