Who am I?: Bonhoeffer's theology through his poetry

272 Pages·2009·0.94 MB·English

by  Bernd Wannenwetsch

Who Am I?
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Who Am I?
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Bonhoe er’s Theology through His Poetry
Edited by
Bernd Wannenwetsch
Published by T&T Clark
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Copyright © Bernd Wannenwetsch and contributors, 2009
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Contents
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Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations viii
Contributors xi
1. Introduction: Who is Dietrich Bonhoeffer
for Us Today? 1
Bernd Wannenwetsch
2. ‘Who Am I?’: Human Identity and the
Spiritual Disciplines in the Witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer 11
Michael Northcott
3. ‘Past’: Bonhoeffer’s‘Past’ 31
Oliver O’Donovan
4. ‘Success and Failure’: Public Disasters,
Works of Love, and the Inwardness of Faithfulness 47
Brian Brock
5. ‘By Powers of Good’: Bonhoeffer’s Last Poem:
Texts and Contexts 71
Nancy Lukens and Renate Bethge
6. ‘The Friend’: Reflections on Friendship and
Freedom 91
Stanley Hauerwas
7. ‘Voices in the Night’: Human Solidarity
and Eschatological Hope 115
Philip G. Ziegler
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8. ‘Stations on the Way to Freedom’:
The Presence of God – The Freedom of Disciples 147
Hans G. Ulrich
9. ‘Christians and Pagans’: Towards a Trans-Religious
Second Naïveté or How to Be a Christological Creature 175
Bernd Wannenwetsch
10. ‘Jonah’: Guilt and Promise 197
Stephen Plant
11. ‘The Death of Moses’: Why Moses? 213
Craig J. Slane
Bibliography 243
Index of Biblical References 251
Subject Index 253
Name Index 257
Acknowledgements
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Translations taken from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s poetry are from
— Letters and Papers from Prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 8 (ed.
John W. de Gruchy; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, in preparation); copy-
right © Fortress Press. Used by permission of Augsburg Fortress
Publishers.
— Letters and Papers from Prison (ed. Eberhard Bethge; London: SCM
Press, enlarged edn, 1971); copyright © SCM Press and Simon & Schuster
Press. Used by permission of SCM Press and Simon & Schuster Press.
— The Prison Poems of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (ed. and trans. Edwin Robert-
son; Guildford, Surrey: Eagle Press, 1998); copyright © Eagle Publishing
Ltd. Used by permission of Eagle Publishing Ltd.
— Widerstand und Ergebung (eds Christian Gremmels, Eberhard Bethge,
Renate Bethge, with Ilse Tödt; Gütersloh: Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlags-
haus, 1998); copyright © Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlagshaus. Used by
permission of Gütersloher Verlagshaus.
Other quotations from Letters and Papers from Prison (ed. Eberhard
Bethge; London: SCM Press, enlarged edn, 1971); copyright © SCM
Press and Simon & Schuster Press. Used by permission of SCM Press and
Simon & Schuster Press.
Abbreviations
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