Standing under the Cross

Standing Under the Cross focuses on Bonhoeffer''s rich theological and ethical thinking. It places Bonhoeffer in conversation with a wide range of modern theologians, including Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Jurgen Moltmann, and James Cone. The book gives particular attention to hermeneutics, the body, and Bonhoeffer''s rich reflections on community and discipleship. Mawson attends to the complex ways in which these aspects of Bonhoeffer''s thinking work together, and shows how they can assist us in responding to some of the challenges confronting us today.>

Préface
This collection of essays explores Dietrich Bonhoeffer's cruciform theology in relation to other theological perspectives and contemporary ethical challenges.

Auteur
Michael Mawson is the Maclaurin Goodfellow Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and faculty member of the Charles Sturt University School of Theology, Australia.

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Standing Under the Cross focuses on Bonhoeffer's rich theological and ethical thinking. It places Bonhoeffer in conversation with a wide range of modern theologians, including Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Jürgen Moltmann, and James Cone. The book gives particular attention to hermeneutics, the body, and Bonhoeffer's rich reflections on community and discipleship. Mawson attends to the complex ways in which these aspects of Bonhoeffer's thinking work together, and shows how they can assist us in responding to some of the challenges confronting us today.

Contenu

Introduction

Chapter 1
Studying Theology in a Time of Crisis: Bonhoefferian Insights for Theological Thinking Today

Part I: The Forms of the Word

Chapter 2
'As a Whole and in its Parts': Bonhoeffer's Approach to Scripture

Chapter 3:
Living in the Forms of the Word: Bonhoeffer and Franz Rozenweig on the Apocalyptic Materiality of Scripture

Chapter 4
The Weakness of the Word and the Reality of God: Bonhoeffer's Grammar of Worldly Living

Chapter 5
Lutheran or Lutherish? Engaging Michael DeJonge on Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther

Part II: The Vulnerabilities of Bodily Life

Chapter 6
Creatures Coram Deo: Bonhoeffer, Disability and Theological Anthropology

Chapter 7
Encountering Grace After the Fall: Bonhoeffer's 'Natural Life' as a Response to Gerald McKenny on Biotechnology

Chapter 8
Should We Live Forever? Reflections on Life Extension Technologies with Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth

Part III: The Politics of the Cross

Chapter 9
'Only Suffering God can Help': Bonhoeffer and Jürgen Moltmann on Divine Passibility

Chapter 10
The Spirit and the Community: Pneumatology and Ecclesiology in Robert Jenson, Reinhard Hütter and Bonhoeffer

Chapter 11
The Politics of Jesus and the Ethics of Christ: On Why Bonhoeffer is not an Anabaptist

Chapter 12
The Stumbling Block and the Lynching Tree: Reading Bonhoeffer's 'Lectures on Christology' with James Cone

Bibliography
Index