Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christian Humanism

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• ISBN 10: 019256871X
• ISBN 13: 9780192568717
• Author: Jens Zimmermann

Jens Zimmermann locates Bonhoeffer within the Christian humanist tradition extending back to patristic theology. He begins by explaining Bonhoeffer’s own use of the term humanism (and Christian humanism), and considering how his criticism of liberal Protestant theology prevents him from articulating his own theology rhetorically as a Christian humanism. He then provides an in-depth portrayal of Bonhoeffer’s theological anthropology and establishes that Bonhoeffer’s Christology and attendant anthropology closely resemble patristic teaching. The volume also considers Bonhoeffer’s mature anthropology, focusing in particular on the Christian self. It introduces the hermeneutic quality of Bonhoeffer’s theology as a further important feature of his Christian humanism. In contrast to secular and religious fundamentalisms, Bonhoeffer offers a hermeneutic understanding of truth as participation in the Christ event that makes interpretation central to human knowing. Having established the hermeneutical structure of his theology, and his personalist configuration of reality, Zimmermann outlines Bonhoeffer’s ethics as ‘Christformation’. Building on the hermeneutic theology and participatory ethics of the previous chapters, he then shows how a major part of Bonhoeffer’s life and theology, namely his dedication to the Bible as God’s word, is also consistent with his Christian humanism.

Table of contents:

1. 1. Bonhoeffer and the Idea of Christian Humanism
2. 2. Bonhoeffer’s Theological Anthropology and the Greater Tradition, Part I: Christology and Recapitulation
3. 3. Bonhoeffer’s Theological Anthropology and the Greater Tradition, Part II: Christ’s Body, Eucharistic Humanism, and Deification
4. 4. In God’s Image: From Sicut Deus to Imago Dei
5. 5. Bonhoeffer’s Hermeneutic Theology
6. 6. Living Freely before God: Christian Humanist Ethics or “Realistic Responsible Action”
7. 7. The Vulnerability of the Word: Bonhoeffer’s Biblical Hermeneutics
8. 8. Recovering the Natural: Humanizing Politics

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