Engaging Bonhoeffer

The Impact and Influence of Bonhoeffer’s Life and Thought

Matthew D. Kirkpatrick, editor

Fortress Press

Minneapolis

ENGAGING BONHOEFFER

The Impact and Influence of Bonhoeffer’s Life and Thought

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Cover image: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1928, Berlin/Rotraut Forberg/Art Resource/NY

Cover design: Laurie Ingram

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Print ISBN: 978-0-8006-9955-0

eBook ISBN: 978-1-5064-1037-1

Contents

Introduction—Whose Bonhoeffer?

List of Contributors

Abbreviations

1. A Tale of Two Bonhoeffers? Ronald Gregor Smith, J. A. T. Robinson, and the Dissemination of Bonhoeffer in the English Speaking World

Keith W. Clements

2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Death of God Theologians

Eleanor McLaughlin

3. The Influence of Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Karl Barth

Tom Greggs

4. Reinhold Niebuhr and Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Responsibility

Robin W. Lovin

5. Situations, Contexts, and Responsibility: Bonhoeffer’s Ethics in the Thought of Joseph Fletcher, Paul Lehmann, and H. Richard Niebuhr

Matthew D. Kirkpatrick

6. Overcoming Ethical Abstraction: Peaceableness, Responsibility, and the Rejection of Foundationalism in Bonhoeffer and Hauerwas

Guido de Graaff

7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Liberation Theologies

Geffrey B. Kelly and Matthew D. Kirkpatrick

8. Dorothee Soelle: Variations on Themes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

H. Martin Rumscheidt

9. “Love of Life”—The Impact and Influence of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life and Thought on Jürgen Moltmann

Christine Schliesser

10. God, Christ, and Church in the DDR—Wolf Krötke as an Interpreter of Bonhoeffer’s Theology

Philip G. Ziegler

11. Locating the Divine Being: On the Presence of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the Theology of Eberhard Jüngel

Christopher R. J. Holmes

12. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Gerhard Ebeling: An Encounter of Theological Minds

Peter Frick

13. The Critique of Religion and Post-Metaphysical Faith: Bonhoeffer’s Influence on Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Religion

Brian Gregor

14. On the Phenomenology of Creation: Between Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s and Jean-Yves Lacoste’s Eschatology

John Panteleimon Manoussakis

15. “Let your light so shine”: Rowan Williams and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Medi Ann Volpe and Jennifer Moberly

Bibliography

Index

Introduction—Whose Bonhoeffer?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His Life Together and Discipleship are considered to be spiritual classics, and few theological works have made as much of an impact as Letters and Papers from Prison upon publication. Although far from uncontroversial, it is also clear that Bonhoeffer’s involvement in the German resistance has also been a significant ...