Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christian humanism / Jans Zimmermann ; [foreward by John W. de Gruchy].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmermann, Jens, 1965- author.

Contributor:

De Gruchy, John W., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich.

Christian humanism.

Physical Description:

xxix, 364 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Contents:

1 Bonhoeffer and the Idea of Christian Humanism p. 1

Bonhoeffer against Humanism: Barcelona and Berlin 1928-31 p. 4

After Barcelona: American Christian Humanism at Union Seminary p. 9

Christian Humanism at the University of Berlin p. 11

Reversing Course: Bonhoeffer a Christian Humanist? p. 13

Bonhoeffer's Christian Humanism in Cultural Context p. 21

Bonhoeffer in Relation to Other Christian Humanisms p. 24

2 Bonhoeffer's Theological Anthropology and the Greater Tradition, Part I: Christology and Recapitulation p. 37

Introduction: Bonhoeffer's Anthropology-A Reversal of Patristic Thought? p. 37

Patristic Imago Dei Christology: Theology as Anthropology p. 44

Bonhoeffer, Theologian of the Incarnation p. 47

Bonhoeffer and Patristic Logos Christology p. 50

Recapitulation and New Humanity in Irenaeus and the Fathers p. 61

The Body of Christ or Eucharistic Humanism p. 64

Stellvertretung: Recapitulation in Bonhoeffer's Theology p. 71

3 Bonhoeffer's Theological Anthropology and the Greater Tradition, Part II: Christ's Body, Eucharistic Humanism, and Deification p. 79

Christ's Body: The Church as the New Humanity p. 79

Bonhoeffer's Eucharistic Humanism: "Christ Existing as Community" p. 82

The Biblical Roots of Bonhoeffer's Participatory Ontology p. 88

Christian Humanism for the Sake of the World p. 91

Deification as Christformation: Reversal or Congruence? p. 97

Deification of the Human Body in Christ p. 101

Deification as Ethical Formation p. 104

4 In God's Image: From Sicut Deus to Imago Dei p. 113

Theological Roots of Bonhoeffer's Imago Dei p. 115

Freedom as Relation p. 117

The Other as Limit p. 119

"Subduing the Earth": Dominion as Responsibility p. 122

Dominion Gone Wrong: The Imago Dei and Disordered Desire p. 128

The Truly Human Self: From the Divided Sicut Deus to Unified Imago Dei p. 129

Sicut Deus: The Divided Self and the Rise of Conscience p. 131

The Image Restored: The Unified Self or "Being-in-Christ" p. 134

The Christological Structure of the Self: Incarnation, Cross, and Resurrection p. 139

The Relevance of Bonhoeffer's Unified Self for Other Humanisms p. 142

5 Bonhoeffer's Hermeneutic Theology p. 148

Introduction: Bonhoeffer's Christological Hermeneutics p. 148

Bonhoeffer's Hermeneutic Consciousness p. 151

Basic Contours of Hermeneutic Philosophy p. 153

Hermeneutic Elements in Bonhoeffer's Early Works p. 155

Bonhoeffer and the Hermeneutical Circle p. 159

Bonhoeffer's Hermeneutical Circle: One Christ Reality p. 162

Participatory Knowledge: The "Evangelical" Hermeneutics of Discipleship p. 166

Following Jesus: Engaged Knowing p. 171

The Hermeneutic Importance of the Threefold Christ Event p. 175

The Interpretive Function of the Ultimate-Penultimate Relation p. 177

Conclusion: Realistic Responsibility p. 181

6 Living Freely before God: Christian Humanist Ethics or "Realistic Responsible Action" p. 183

Participatory Ontology: Bonhoeffer's Ethical Realism p. 186

One Christ-Reality p. 188

The "Real One": Relational Ontology versus Christomonism p. 190

Ultimate-Penultimate: The Eschatological Dimension of Christformation p. 193

Renewing the Image: Ethics as Christformation p. 196

The Social Aspects of Christformation p. 204

Christformation in Western Culture p. 207

Discerning God's Will: Ethics as "Realistic Responsible Action" p. 211

Responsibility and the Assumption of "Guilt" p. 219

Living Freely before God p. 224

7 The Vulnerability of the Word: Bonhoeffer's Biblical Hermeneutics p. 236

Letting the Bible Speak: Barth's Critique of Historical Criticism p. 238

God Speaks to Us: Bonhoeffer's "Discovery" of the Bible p. 241

The Divine-Human Word: Bonhoeffer's Incarnational View of the Bible p. 244

Reading the Book of the Church: Bonhoeffer on Theological Interpretation p. 248

Reading the Bible "from Christ toward Christ" p. 252

Reading the Old Testament with Bonhoeffer p. 255

Theological Interpretation of Genesis p. 256

Sermons and Meditations p. 258

Christ in the Psalms p. 259

The Sacrament of the Word: Exegesis in the Service of Christformation p. 264

Non-Religious Interpretation of Biblical Concepts p. 267

Non-Religious Interpretation: Christian Humanist Implications p. 273

Humanism as the Polyphony of Life: Re-Discovering the Old Testament p. 278

Bonhoeffer's "Creation Faith": Toward an Integral Christian Humanism p. 281

8 Recovering the Natural: Humanizing Politics p. 291

Recovering the Natural p. 293

Natural Life and Natural Rights p. 298

Recovering Natural "Law" p. 305

Bonhoeffer's View of Church-State Relations p. 311

Bonhoeffer's Political Thought within the Broader Christian Tradition p. 315

Politics after Christendom p. 320

Christ, Pluralism, and Secular Democracies p. 323

9 Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Bonhoeffer's Christian Humanism p. 331.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-355) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780198832560

0198832567

OCLC:

1065885231