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Act and Being: Transcendental Philosophy and Ontology in Systematic Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Act and Being, written in 1929–1930 as Bonhoeffer’s second dissertation, deals with the questions of consciousness and conscience in theology from the perspective of the Reformation insight about the origin of human sinfulness in the “heart turned in upon itself and thus open neither to the revelation of God nor to the encounter with the neighbor.” Here, therefore, we find Bonhoeffer’s thoughts...

‘the being of God in revelation’ must be interpreted theologically, including how it is known, how faith as act, and revelation as being, are related to one another and, correspondingly, how human beings stand in light of revelation. Is revelation ‘given’ to them only in each completed act; is there for human beings such a thing as ‘being’ in revelation? What form does the concept of revelation have when it is interpreted in terms of act and when it is interpreted in terms of being? It is not our
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