A Theology of Sociality
revised edition
Clifford J. Green
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.
© 1972, 1999 Clifford J. Green
First edition published 1972 under the title
The Sociality of Christ and Humanity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Early Theology, 1927–1933
Revised edition published 1999 by
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Chapter 1 Interpreting Bonhoeffer’s Theology
A. The Rationale for a Study of Bonhoeffer’s Early Theology
B. Problems in Bonhoeffer Interpretation
Chapter 2 Human Sociality and the New Humanity of Christ: Sanctorum Communio
A. Introduction to the Argument of Sanctorum Communio
1. Sociality as the Context of Ecclesiology
2. Theology, Social Philosophy and Sociology
B. Theological Concepts Articulated as a Theology of Sociality
1. ‘Person’ as Relational and Corporate
2. Creation: The ‘Primal State’
3. Sin: Adam and the ‘Broken Community’
4. Revelation: Christ and the New Humanity
C. The Sociality of Christ and Humanity
Chapter 3 Christian Anthropology and Social Ontology in Act and Being
A. The Subject of Act and Being: Theological Anthropology
B. Philosophical Anthropology and the Soteriological Problem
C. Christian Anthropology: A Social Ontology
D. Bonhoeffer’s Theological Situation, 1930–31
Chapter 4 From the Phraseological to the Real: 1932
A. The Soteriological Problem: Human Power
2. The Problem of Power in Society
3. Power as a Soteriological Problem
B. 1932: Bonhoeffer’s Personal Commitment
C. Obedience as Liberation. Discipleship and the Autobiographical Dimension of its Theology
2. The Autobiographical Dimension of the Theology
3. Theological and Personal Problems in Discipleship
D. Personal Discipleship: Its Influence on Bonhoeffer’s Theological Development
2. Christology and Anthropology
Chapter 5 Christ and Humanity in Bonhoeffer’s Theology, 1932–33
1. The Christological Foundation of the Doctrine of Creation
2. Imago Dei as analogia relationis: The Freedom of the Creator and the Creatures in Sociality
3. The Freedom of Humanity as Geist and Natur
4. Sin and Sociality: Fallen Relationships ‘in Adam’
5. Preservation Towards Christ
B. Christ the Mediator: The 1933 Christology
1. The Christological Question
2. The Sociality of the Present Christ
C. The Christology Lectures as the Culmination of Bonhoeffer’s Early Theology
2. The Anthropological Pattern of Christology
Chapter 6 The Prison Letters and the Theology of Sociality
A. The Theology of Religionless Christianity
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About Bonhoeffer: A Theology of SocialityThe classic study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s social thought, now expanded with never-before-published Bonhoeffer letters. Widely acclaimed as the best study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s early social theology, Clifford Green’s Bonhoeffer is here fully updated and expanded with new material not available anywhere else. Features of this new edition: A selection of important, newly discovered letters between Bonhoeffer and Paul Lehmann and between Lehmann and members of Bonhoeffer’s family. An extensive chapter covering Bonhoeffer’s Ethics. All citations updated to the new German and English editions of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works. |
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