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0000-0002-1497-2623
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The University of Auckland
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-07-2021
DOI: 10.1177/09539468211031398
Abstract: Writing in the 1920s and 1930s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Franz Rosenzweig each provided rich reflections on how we are to understand and approach the Bible as God’s word. They each understood Scripture as revelation, while attending closely to the substance and forms of biblical texts. This article therefore explores how their approaches to Scripture can contribute to ongoing work in apocalyptic theology. In particular, it draws out the ethic of responsibility that is inherent in their biblical hermeneutics.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-07-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-08-2018
Abstract: For both Luther and Bonhoeffer God enters into and dwells in the world through weakness and suffering, rather than ine authority or strength. This article explores the significance of Luther’s theologia crucis and Bonhoeffer’s treatment of ‘the weakness of the Word’ in Discipleship. Moreover, it draws out some of the implications of these themes for Christian mission today. What does it mean for Christians to witness to and engage the world in weakness? How does this free Christians from needing a fixed programme or governing ideal in their witness and evangelism?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-09-2013
DOI: 10.1111/IJST.12038
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-07-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-03-2014
Abstract: This article reevaluates the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s widely criticized engagement with social theory in his doctoral dissertation Sanctorum Communio. On the one hand, it argues that there are specific theological concerns underlying Bonhoeffer’s initial decisions with respect to social theory, in ways that have not been sufficiently recognized. This is the case for both Bonhoeffer’s distinction between social philosophy and sociology and his related preference for formal (rather than historical) approaches to sociology. On the other hand, this article insists that Bonhoeffer did not simply draw or rely upon formal approaches to sociology uncritically. Rather, he carefully took up and reworked concepts and insights from social theory on the basis of a properly theological dialectic of creation, sin, and reconciliation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 08-2009
DOI: 10.1017/S0036930609004773
Abstract: John Milbank is one of the most recent and arguably most radical proponents of an understanding of nature as graced. This article critically examines Milbank's understanding of nature and grace, specifically as elaborated within his reading of Thomas Aquinas. In the first part I will outline Aquinas's most direct discussions of nature and grace in the Summa Theologica , drawing attention to several central, albeit subtle, distinctions that these contain. In the second and third parts, I will examine Milbank's reading of Aquinas in Truth in Aquinas , and examine whether it adequately reflects and negotiates Aquinas's distinctions. On this basis I will argue Milbank's reading, while drawing attention to some important and often neglected areas of Aquinas's thought, ultimately remains limited.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 23-08-2018
DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198826460.001.0001
Abstract: How can theologians recognize the church as a historical and human community, while still holding that it has been established by Christ and is a work of the Spirit? How can a theological account of the church draw insights and concepts from the social sciences, without Christian commitments and claims about the church being undermined or displaced? In 1927, the 21-year-old Dietrich Bonhoeffer defended his licentiate dissertation, Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church . This remains his most neglected and misunderstood work. Christ Existing as Community thus retrieves and analyses Bonhoeffer’s engagement with social theory and attempt at ecclesiology. Against standard readings and criticisms of this work, Mawson demonstrates that it contains a rich and nuanced approach to the church, one which displays many of Bonhoeffer’s key influences—especially Luther, Hegel, Troeltsch, and Barth—while being distinctive in its own right. In particular, Mawson argues that Sanctorum Communio ’s theology is built around a complex dialectic of creation, sin, and reconciliation. On this basis, he contends that Bonhoeffer’s dissertation has ongoing significance for work in theology and Christian ethics.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-01-2019
DOI: 10.1111/MOTH.12471
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 31-10-2019
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198753179.001.0001
Abstract: This handbook provides a comprehensive resource for those wishing to understand the German theologian, pastor, and resistance conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–45) and his writings. It contains sections on Bonhoeffer’s life and context, his contributions to all areas of systematic theology and ethics, constructive uses of Bonhoeffer for engaging contemporary issues, and resources for studying Bonhoeffer today. Contributors include leading Bonhoeffer scholars, historians, theologians, and ethicists.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-02-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-07-2021
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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