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Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Late Theology

Encounters with the Unknown Christ
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 2020

Summary

In the last years of his life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began work on an idea that he called unbewußtes Christentum, "unconscious Christianity." While Bonhoeffer’s other ideas from this period have been extensively studied and are important in the field of theology and beyond, this idea has been almost completely ignored. For the first time in Bonhoeffer scholarship, Eleanor McLaughlin provides a definition of unconscious Christianity, based on a close reading and analysis of the texts in which Bonhoeffer mentioned the term. From a variety of surviving texts, from a scribbled marginal note in his Ethics manuscript to the fiction he wrote in prison, she constructs a detailed definition of unconscious Christianity that sheds light not only on Bonhoeffer’s late work but his theological development as a whole.

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Edition
1/2020
Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0825-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0826-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
211
Product Type
Monograph

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Foreword No access
    3. Acknowledgments No access
  1. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 24
    1. 1 Bonhoeffer as a Member of the Bürgertum No access
    2. 2 Unconscious Christianity in Four Texts No access
    3. 3 Defining Unconscious Christianity No access
    1. 4 Unconscious Christianity in Context No access
    2. 5 Unconscious Christianity as a Shift within Bonhoeffer’s Theology No access
  2. Conclusion No access Pages 177 - 194
  3. Appendix No access Pages 195 - 200
  4. Bibliography No access Pages 201 - 206
  5. Index No access Pages 207 - 210
  6. About the Author No access Pages 211 - 211

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