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Jesus, Transcendence, and Generosity

Christology and Transcendence in Hans Frei and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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 2018

Summary

Contemporary scholars aiming to articulate a ‘middle way’ between fundamentalism and liberalism regularly draw upon HansFrei and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, yet they are rarely brought together on this question, if at all. Here, Tim Boniface highlights the promise of reading them together, proposing especially that a discussion of Jesus’ transcendence derived from their responses to modernity is an effective locus for considering their combined contribution to a ‘middle way’ discussion.

Having outlined a rationale for a theology of Christological transcendence, this work describes in detail how both Frei and Bonhoeffer point towards a nuanced approach to the transcendence of Jesus—especially in terms of the importance of articulating that transcendence at the level of the ‘unsubstitutable historical particularity’ of Christ in the cultural-linguistic setting of the Christian community (Frei) and the impact of a theologia crucis and a participatory cosmic Christology on such thinking (Bonhoeffer).

Offering a unique summary of the key ways in which the two theologians’ works mutually critique and strengthen one another, Boniface then articulates a pneumatological emphasis lacking in both Frei and Bonhoeffer, stressing the supreme generosity of God at the heart of what it means to say that Jesus transcends.

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Edition
1/2018
Copyright Year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0126-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0127-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
262
Product Type
Monograph

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Acknowledgments No access
    3. Abbreviations No access
    4. Introduction No access
  1. Ch01. The Domestication of Transcendence and Christology No access Pages 1 - 24
  2. Ch02. Hans Frei: Transcendence, Hermeneutics, and Christology No access Pages 25 - 64
  3. Ch03. Hans Frei: Jesus, Transcendence, and the Hermeneutical Community No access Pages 65 - 96
  4. Ch04. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Modernity and Transcendence No access Pages 97 - 126
  5. Ch05. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Transcendence, a Theologia Crucis, and Unsubstitutability No access Pages 127 - 168
  6. Ch06. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Christology and Transcendence in Ethics and Letters and Papers from Prison No access Pages 169 - 210
  7. Ch07. The Transcendence of Jesusand the Generosity of God No access Pages 211 - 240
  8. Bibliography No access Pages 241 - 254
  9. Index No access Pages 255 - 260
  10. About the Author No access Pages 261 - 262

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