Bonhoeffer : A Theology of Sociality

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.

Clifford J. Green is professor of theology at Hartford Seminary, Connecticut. He is the founding president of the International Bonhoeffer Society

Abbreviations

ix

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Interpreting Bonhoeffer's Theology

1

(18)

The Rationale for a Study of Bonhoeffer's Early Theology

4

(3)

Problems in Bonhoeffer Interpretation

7

(6)

The Argument Ahead

13

(6)

Human Sociality and the New Humanity of Christ: Sanctorum Communio

19

(48)

Introduction to the Argument of Sanctorum Communio

21

(7)

Sociality as the Context of Ecclesiology

21

(4)

Theology, Social Philosophy and Sociology

25

(3)

Theological Concepts Articulated as a Theology of Sociality

28

(35)

`Person' as Relational and Corporate

29

(16)

Creation: The `Primal State'

45

(3)

Sin: Adam and the `Broken Community'

48

(4)

Revelation: Christ and the New Humanity

52

(11)

The Sociality of Christ and Humanity

63

(4)

Christian Anthropology and Social Ontology in Act and Being

67

(38)

The Subject of Act and Being: Theological Anthropology

68

(8)

Philosophical Anthropology and the Soteriological Problem

76

(7)

Christian Anthropology: A Social Ontology

83

(17)

Revelation in Christ

83

(7)

Humanity `In Adam'

90

(3)

Humanity `In Christ'

93

(7)

Bonhoeffer's Theological Situation, 1930-31

100

(5)

From the Phraseological to the Real: 1932

105

(80)

The Soteriological Problem: Human Power

108

(32)

The Power of the Ego

109

(17)

The Problem of Power in Society

126

(9)

Power as a Soteriological Problem

135

(5)

1932: Bonhoeffer's Personal Commitment

140

(10)

Obedience as Liberation. Discipleship and the Autobiographical Dimension of its Theology

150

(29)

Sociality and Discipleship

154

(4)

The Autobiographical Dimension of the Theology

158

(12)

Theological and Personal Problems in Discipleship

170

(9)

Personal Discipleship: Its Influence on Bonhoeffer's Theological Development

179

(6)

Bible and Church

179

(2)

Christology and Anthropology

181

(4)

Christ and Humanity in Bonhoeffer's Theology, 1932-33

185

(62)

Christ and Creation

186

(20)

The Christological Foundation of the Doctrine of Creation

187

(3)

Imago Dei as analogia relationis: The Freedom of the Creator and the Creatures in Sociality

190

(7)

The Freedom of Humanity as Geist and Natur

197

(3)

Sin and Sociality: Fallen Relationships `in Adam'

200

(3)

Preservation Towards Christ

203

(3)

Christ the Mediator: The 1933 Christology

206

(28)

The Christological Question

207

(4)

The Sociality of the Present Christ

211

(9)

Christ the Mediator

220

(14)

The Christology Lectures as the Culmination of Bonhoeffer's Early Theology

234

(13)

Sociality

234

(3)

The Anthropological Pattern of Christology

237

(3)

Soteriology

240

(7)

The Prison Letters and the Theology of Sociality

247

(54)

The Theology of Religionless Christianity

248

(37)

Mundigkeit: The New Anthropological Question

248

(10)

The Critique of `Religion'

258

(11)

Religionless Christianity

269

(13)

Religionless Christianity and the Theology of Sociality

282

(3)

Bonhoeffer's Theology of Sociality

285

(16)

Bonhoeffer and the Lutheran Tradition

286

(5)

`Vivendo fit theologus'

291

(3)

Theology and Sociality

294

(7)

Bonhoeffer's Ethics--- a Coda

301

(28)

Editions of Bonhoeffer's Ethics

302

(2)

Christian ethics, coup d'etat, and tyrannicide

304

(17)

Ethics for everyday life

321

(8)

Appendix Letters: Dietrich Bonnhoeffer, Paul Lehmann, and Others, 1932--1949

329

(36)

Select Bibliography

365

(10)

Bibliography

365

(1)

Primary Sources

365

(3)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works

365

(2)

Other Editions and Translations of Bonhoeffer's Writings

367

(1)

Secondary Literature

368

(7)

Index of Names

375

(4)

Index of Subjects

379

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