The SPCK Introduction to Bonhoeffer

by Keith Clements

Publisher:

SPCK

, 2010

Overview

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s insightful writings and staunch resistance to the Nazi party have ensured that he remains one of the twentieth century’s most influential theologians. This accessible and engaging introduction, written by an internationally acclaimed Bonhoeffer scholar, considers the role Bonhoeffer played in resisting the Nazis and explains his attitude toward the Holocaust.

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Key Features

• Introduces the life and ideas of this insightful theologian
• Analyzes Bonhoeffer’s thinking from a Christian perspective
• Discusses the lasting effect of this influential individual

Contents

• Bonhoeffer: A Life in Outline
• Persistent Themes: Christ, Sociality, This-Wordliness and ‘One Realm’
• The Prison Theology: ‘Religionless Christianity’
• Bonhoeffer, the Jews and the Holocaust
• Pursuing Bonhoeffer

Top Highlights

“Bonhoeffer was highly unusual in his involvement in the conspiracy.” (Page xvi)

“Instead, according to Bonhoeffer, Christ’s being ‘for us’ is not a fact about him that is ‘additional’ to his being ‘true God and true man’. Christ’s ‘being for us’ is the very essence of his divinity and humanity and their unity. Jesus is ‘the incarnate one, the unveiled image of God’ (C 109). It is precisely in his humanity that Jesus glorifies and reveals God.” (Page 28)

“But according to the biblical and Reformation faith, truth and salvation lie outside of our selves, in the Christ who is beyond ourselves (extra nos) yet also ‘for us’ (pro nobis) in his grace.” (Page 27)

“But it then has to be asked whether Bonhoeffer himself would have become the later radical except on the basis of his earlier career of life and thought.” (Page xix)

“The earth remains our mother, just as God remains our father, and only those who remain true to the mother are placed by her into the father’s arms.” (Page 35)

Praise for the Print Edition

A reliable and readable guide to Bonhoeffer’s legacy for a new generation of students and a much wider circle of readers.

—John W. de Gruchy, professor emeritus, University of Cape Town

Product Details

• Title: The SPCK Introduction to Bonhoeffer
• Author: Keith Clements
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 128

About Keith Clements

Keith Clements studied at Cambridge and Oxford, and received his PhD from Bristol University. He was senior tutor at Bristol Baptist College and part-time lecturer at the University of Bristol from 1977 to 1990, secretary for international affairs in the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and general secretary of the Conference of European Churches from 1997 to 2005. He has written extensively on Christian life and thought, with a special interest in Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He is the author of Bonhoeffer and Britain and the editor of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Vol. 13: London 1933–35.