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Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation - Berlin, Barth, and Protestant Theology (Paperback)
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Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation - Berlin, Barth, and Protestant Theology (Paperback)
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's dramatic biography, a son of privilege who
suffered imprisonment and execution after involving himself in a
conspiracy to kill Hitler and overthrow the Third Reich, has helped
make him one of the most influential Christian figures of the
twentieth century. But before he was known as a martyr or a hero,
he was a student and teacher of theology. This book examines the
academic formation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology, arguing that
the young Bonhoeffer reinterpreted for a modern intellectual
context the Lutheran understanding of the 'person' of Jesus Christ.
In the process, Bonhoeffer not only distinguished himself from both
Karl Barth and Karl Holl, whose dialectical theology and Luther
interpretation respectively were two of the most important
post-World War I theological movements, but also established the
basic character of his own 'person-theology.' Barth convinces
Bonhoeffer that theology must understand revelation as originating
outside the human self in God's freedom. But whereas Barth
understands revelation as the act of an eternal divine subject,
Bonhoeffer treats revelation as the act and being of the historical
person of Jesus Christ. On the basis of this person-concept of
revelation, Bonhoeffer rejects Barth's dialectical thought,
designed to respect the distinction between God and world, for a
hermeneutical way of thinking that begins with the reconciliation
of God and world in the person of Christ. Here Bonhoeffer mines a
Lutheran understanding of the incarnation as God's unreserved entry
into history, and the person of Christ as the resulting historical
reconciliation of opposites. This also distinguishes Bonhoeffer's
Lutheranism from that of Karl Holl, one of Bonhoeffer's teachers in
Berlin, whose location of justification in the conscience renders
the presence of Christ superfluous. Against this, Bonhoeffer
emphasizes the present person of Christ as the precondition of
justification. Through these critical conversations, Bonhoeffer
develops the features of his person-theology--a person-concept of
revelation and a hermeneutical way of thinking--which remain
constant despite the sometimes radical changes in his thought.
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