The Other Bonhoeffer: An Evangelical Reassessment of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

by Georg Huntemann, Todd Huizinga (Translator)

PART 1: Bonhoeffer's life and thought -- 1.) Challenged by a revolution -- 2.) Concern with the 'big picture' -- 3.) Breaking out of the closed system ---------- PART 2: Bonhoeffer's church -- 4.) Bonhoeffer as antirevolutionary -- 5.) Modernist theology's claim to Bonhoeffer's thought -- 6.) Bonhoeffer as Christ-mystic -- 7.) Bonhoeffer as reformational Christian ---------- PART 3: The decline of Christianity and religionless Christ-mysticism -- 8.) World come of age -- 9.) The religious perversion of Christianity -- 10.) Bonhoeffer's real Christ-mysticism ---------- PART 4: Biblical revelation in Babylonian captivity -- 11.) Bonhoeffer and historical-critical methodology -- 12.) Earth without a Heaven? -- 13.) Bonhoeffer's theology of revelation ---------- PART 5: The power and powerlessness of God -- 14.) The powerlessness of God -- 15.) God's substitutionary presence on Earth -- 16.) On the end of time ---------- PART 6: Christian existence as concrete truth -- 17.) Discipleship -- 18.) Living according to the Sermon on the Mount -- 19.) Discipleship and community ---------- PART 7: Bonhoeffer's ethics of order -- 20.) The dissolution of all values -- 21.) Revealed ethos -- 22.) The biblical ethos and this world ---------- PART 8: Bonhoeffer in the resistance -- 23.) The National Socialist Revolution -- 24.) The state under God's grace ---------- PART 9: Bonhoeffer and the established Protestant church -- 25.) Bonhoeffer's Christ-mystical church -- 26.) Bonhoeffer's striving for community -- 27.) The secularized church -- 28.) The confessing church ---------- PART 10: Unity in the church and peace in the world -- 29.) Peace and justice -- 30.) No unity without truth

342 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1993

Reviews

[Mish · Rating 3 out of 5]

A meaty read.