Engaging Bonhoeffer: The Impact and Influence of Bonhoeffers Life and Thought

Matthew D. Kirkpatrick

Fortress Press, Jun 3, 2016 - Religion - 376 pages

Engaging Bonhoeffer documents the extraordinary impact of Dietrich Bonhoeffers life and writing on later thought. Despite his lasting legacy, little substantial scholarship has been conducted in this area. In this magisterial collection, leading international scholars fill this striking gap and critically demonstrate the ways in which Bonhoeffer has been one of the most original, inspirational, and provocative writers of the twentieth century.

Bonhoeffers work has proved foundational for a wide variety of thinkers and movements across such areas as ecclesiology, Christology, spirituality, ethics, hermeneutics, phenomenology, epistemology, and systematic theology more generally. Whether one considers his writings to have been faithfully interpreted, critically adopted or justifiably rejected, Engaging Bonhoeffer describes those who have engaged with Bonhoeffers work, been inspired by his actions, and found a way to express and explain their own ideas through interacting with his life and thought. In addition to shedding light on the different theological trajectories that Bonhoeffers work may forge, this challenging volume offers a critical window through which to view and appreciate the ideas of many leading voices of modern theology.

Contents

• A Tale of Two Bonhoeffers? Ronald Gregor Smith J A T Robinson and the Dissemination of Bonhoeffer in the English Speaking World: 1
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Death of God Theologians: 25
• The Influence of Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Karl Barth: 45
• Reinhold Niebuhr and Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Responsibility: 65
• Bonhoeffers Ethics in the Thought of Joseph Fletcher Paul Lehmann and H Richard Niebuhr: 87
• Peaceableness Responsibility and the Rejection of Foundationalism in Bonhoeffer and Hauerwas: 115
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Liberation Theologies: 139
• Variations on Themes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer: 169
• Love of LifeThe Impact and Influence of Dietrich Bonhoeffers Life and Thought on Jürgen Moltmann: 187
• God Christ and Church in the DDRWolf Krötke as an Interpreter of Bonhoeffers Theology: 201
• On the Presence of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the Theology of Eberhard Jüngel: 221
• An Encounter of Theological Minds: 239
• Bonhoeffers Influence on Ricoeurs Hermeneutics of Religion: 259
• Between Dietrich Bonhoeffers and JeanYves Lacostes Eschatology: 283
• Rowan Williams and Dietrich Bonhoeffer: 303
• Bibliography: 325
• Index: 343

About the author

Matthew D. Kirkpatrick is Tutorial Fellow in Christian ethics and doctrine at Wycliffe Hall, the University of Oxford. He has published widely on Bonhoeffer's thought, including Attacks on Christendom in a World Come of Age (2011), Bonhoeffer's Ethics (2011) and, as editor, Engaging Bonhoeffer (2016).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Engaging Bonhoeffer: The Impact and Influence of Bonhoeffers Life and Thought
• Author: Matthew D. Kirkpatrick
• Publisher: Fortress Press, 2016
• ISBN: 1506410375, 9781506410371
• Length: 376 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christianity / History; Religion / Christianity / Lutheran