Everyone Who Acts Responsibly Becomes Guilty : Bonhoeffer's Concept of Accepting Guilt

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ISBN: 9780664232160 | 0664232167
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/3/2008

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"Everyone who acts responsibly becomes guilty" was a basic premise that Dietrich Bonhoeffer expressed in various ways in his theology and ethics. In this study, Christine Schliesser examines the problem of guilt in Bonhoeffer's writings, arguing that the concept of accepting guilt emerges from Bonhoeffer's christological commitments. Since Jesus Christ has accepted the guilt of humankind, so the disciple must also be willing to accept guilt for the sake of the other. In addition, Schliesser reveals the unresolved tensions that emerge in the concept of accepting guilt and discusses the extent to which Bonhoeffer's concept is still relevant to Christian ethics today. Book jacket.

Foreword	p. XI
Acknowledgments	p. XIII
Introduction	p. 1
History of Scholarship	p. 3
Preliminary Remarks	p. 3
History of Scholarship-An Overview of the Reception of Bonhoeffer's Concept of Accepting Guilt in Bonhoeffer Scholarship	p. 4
Results and Specification of Our Task	p. 37
Sanctorum Communio: Acceptance of Guilt in the Church-Community	p. 38
Being-For-Each-Other and Being-With-Each-Other	p. 40
Stellvertretung in Sanctorum Communio	p. 44
Results	p. 46
Act and Being: Guilt and Sin as Act and Being?	p. 48
The Concept of the Person	p. 50
Sin as Act and Being	p. 50
Two Understandings of Guilt as Act and Being	p. 52
Results	p. 54
Creation and Fall: The Beginning of Guilt	p. 55
Guilty of the Other's Guilt	p. 57
Good and Evil	p. 61
Freedom as Freedom for	p. 64
Results	p. 66
Temptation: The Temptation of Suffering	p. 68
Results	p. 70
Discipleship: The Christological Necessity of Accepting Guilt	p. 71
Christ and Bearing: Two Dimensions	p. 72
Bearing as Part of Discipleship	p. 72
Bearing in Community with Christ	p. 74
Excursus to Gal 6:2:'O [characters not reproducible]	p. 75
The Imago Christi	p. 80
Consequences of the Imago Christi: Accepting and Bearing Guilt	p. 82
The Renunciation of One's Righteousness and Free, Responsible Action	p. 83
The Renunciation of One's Dignity and Sharing Other's Guilt	p. 85
The Renunciation of One's Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Freed Conscience	p. 88
Accepting Guilt in Stellvertretung	p. 90
Results	p. 91
Life Together: Accepting Each Other within a Christian Community	p. 93
Results	p. 95
The Prayerbook of the Bible: Praying and Suffering with Christ	p. 97
Results	p. 98
Ethics: Accepting Guilt as Responsible Stellvertretung	p. 100
The Context: Bonhoeffer's Christology	p. 101
The Early Works: Sanctorum Communio and Act and Being	p. 103
The Berlin Lectures: Creation and Fall and Christology	p. 105
The Illegal Seminary in Finkenwalde: Discipleship	p. 109
Against the Background of the Conspiracy: Ethics	p. 113
The Prison Years: Letters and Papers from Prison	p. 116
Responsible Life as Obligation/Bond and Freedom	p. 117
Obligation as Stellvertretung	p. 124
Obligation as Accordance with Reality	p. 130
Freedom as Accountability for One's Life and Action: The Acceptance of Guilt and the Role of the Conscience	p. 137
Freedom as the Venture of a Concrete Decision	p. 142
Results	p. 144
Letters and Papers from Prison: Accepting Guilt and "The Need for Free and Responsible Action"	p. 145
After Ten Years	p. 146
Existential Perspectives on Accepting Guilt	p. 148
"Night Voices in Tegel"	p. 149
"Jonah"	p. 153
Results	p. 156
The Concept of Accepting Guilt in Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Reconstruction	p. 158
Sanctorum Communio	p. 159
Act and Being	p. 161
Creation and Fall	p. 162
Temptation	p. 163
Discipleship	p. 164
Life Together	p. 167
The Prayerbook of the Bible	p. 167
Ethics	p. 168
Letters and Papers from Prison	p. 172
Results	p. 174
Unresolved Tensions within Bonhoeffer's Concept of Accepting Guilt and Further Deliberations	p. 175
The Moral Dilemma	p. 176
Guilt as Innocence?	p. 178
Guilt Actively Incurred vs. Guilt Non-Actively Incurred	p. 180
A Christological Confusion?	p. 181
A Contradiction within the Will of God Itself?	p. 186
Bonhoeffer's Understanding of Guilt: A Lack of Definition?	p. 189
Summary of Tensions in Bonhoeffer's Concept of Accepting Guilt	p. 190
Was Bonhoeffer Guilty?	p. 191
Bonhoeffer as Christian or as Political Martyr?	p. 195
Biography and Theology in Bonhoeffer	p. 198
Bonhoeffer's Ethics and his Concept of Accepting Guilt: Still of Any Use?	p. 200
Summary of Further Deliberations	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 207
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