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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...

undertakes such a form of thought whose movement the reader can comprehend only when one thinks along with Bonhoeffer. It resists facile summation, demanding disciplined theological engagement. Act and Being evidences Bonhoeffer’s emerging practical concern to find for theology a methodology adequate and proper to its unique subject matter—and to the challenging terrain of its cultural and historical location. Despite its seemingly abstract philosophical
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