Bonhoeffer : a theology of sociality / Clifford J. Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Clifford J.

Contributor:

Green, Clifford J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich.

Christian sociology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 392 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 1999.

Summary:

Widely acclaimed as the best study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's early social theology, Clifford Green's Bonhoeffer is here fully updated and expanded with important new material not available anywhere else. This revised edition of Bonhoeffer includes newly discovered, previously unpublished letters between Bonhoeffer and Paul Lehmann and between Lehmann and members of Bonhoeffer's family as well as a substantial new chapter covering Bonhoeffer's Ethics. In addition, all citations of Bonhoeffer's writings have been updated to the new German and English editions of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works as well as to the revised, unabridged edition of Eberhard Bethge's biography.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Interpreting Bonhoeffer's Theology 1

A. The Rationale for a Study of Bonhoeffer's Early Theology 4

B. Problems in Bonhoeffer Interpretation 7

C. The Argument Ahead 13

Chapter 2 Human Sociality and the New Humanity of Christ: Sanctorum Communio 19

A. Introduction to the Argument of Sanctorum Communio 21

1. Sociality as the Context of Ecclesiology 21

2. Theology, Social Philosophy and Sociology 25

B. Theological Concepts Articulated as a Theology of Sociality 28

1. 'Person' as Relational and Corporate 29

2. Creation: The 'Primal State' 45

3. Sin: Adam and the 'Broken Community' 48

4. Revelation: Christ and the New Humanity 52

C. The Sociality of Christ and Humanity 63

Chapter 3 Christian Anthropology and Social Ontology in Act and Being 67

A. The Subject of Act and Being: Theological Anthropology 68

B. Philosophical Anthropology and the Soteriological Problem 76

C. Christian Anthropology: A Social Ontology 83

1. Revelation in Christ 83

2. Humanity 'In Adam' 90

3. Humanity 'In Christ' 93

D. Bonhoeffer's Theological Situation, 1930-31 100

Chapter 4 From the Phraseological to the Real: 1932 105

A. The Soteriological Problem: Human Power 108

1. The Power of the Ego 109

2. The Problem of Power in Society 126

3. Power as a Soteriological Problem 135

B. 1932: Bonhoeffer's Personal Commitment 140

C. Obedience as Liberation. Discipleship and the Autobiographical Dimension of its Theology 150

1. Sociality and Discipleship 154

2. The Autobiographical Dimension of the Theology 158

3. Theological and Personal Problems in Discipleship 170

D. Personal Discipleship: Its Influence on Bonhoeffer's Theological Development 179

1. Bible and Church 179

2. Christology and Anthropology 181

Chapter 5 Christ and Humanity in Bonhoeffer's Theology, 1932-33 185

A. Christ and Creation 186

1. The Christological Foundation of the Doctrine of Creation 187

2. Imago Dei as analogia relationis: The Freedom of the Creator and the Creatures in Sociality 190

3. The Freedom of Humanity as Geist and Natur 197

4. Sin and Sociality: Fallen Relationships 'in Adam' 200

5. Preservation Towards Christ 203

B. Christ the Mediator: The 1933 Christology 206

1. The Christological Question 207

2. The Sociality of the Present Christ 211

3. Christ the Mediator 220

C. The Christology Lectures as the Culmination of Bonhoeffer's Early Theology 234

1. Sociality 234

2. The Anthropological Pattern of Christology 237

3. Soteriology 240

Chapter 6 The Prison Letters and the Theology of Sociality 247

A. The Theology of Religionless Christianity 248

1. Mundigkeit: The New Anthropological Question 248

2. The Critique of 'Religion' 258

3. Religionless Christianity 269

4. Religionless Christianity and the Theology of Sociality 282

B. Bonhoeffer's Theology of Sociality 285

1. Bonhoeffer and the Lutheran Tradition 286

2. 'Vivendo fit theologus' 291

3. Theology and Sociality 294

Chapter 7 Bonhoeffer's Ethics

a Coda 301

A. Editions of Bonhoeffer's Ethics 302

B. Christian ethics, coup d'etat, and tyrannicide 304

C. Ethics for everyday life 321

Appendix Letters: Dietrich Bonnhoeffer, Paul Lehmann, and Others, 1932-1949 329.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: The sociality of Christ and humanity.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Related Work:

Green, Clifford J. Sociality of Christ and humanity.

ISBN:

0802846327

OCLC:

42619614