Bonhoeffer's Theology in Historical Context (CH3025W)

Content

Beginning with his early philosophical theology and concluding with his radical prison writings, this unit explores the dynamic interaction between Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s leading theological ideas and his engagement with the changing religious, social, and political context of Hitler’s Third Reich.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

36 points in CT

Pedagogy

lectures, seminars

Indicative Bibliography

• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Discipleship. Edited by Geffrey B. Kelly and John D. Godsey. Translated by Barbara Green and Krauss Reinhard. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000.
• ———. Ethics. Edited by Clifford J. Green. Translated by Reinhard Krauss, Charles C. West, and Douglas W. Scott. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005.
• ———. Letters and Papers from Prison. Edited by John W. de Gruchy. Translated by Isabel Best, Lisa E. Dahill, Reinhard Krauss, and Nancy Lukens. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010.
• ———. No Rusty Swords: Letters, Lectures and Notes 1928–1936. Translated by Edwin H. Robertson, John Bowden, and Eberhard Bethge. London: Collins, 1970.
• Clements, Keith W. Bonhoeffer and Britain. London: Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, 2006.
• ———. The SPCK Introduction to Bonhoeffer. London: SPCK, 2010.
• Green, Clifford J. and Michael P. DeJonge, eds. The Bonhoeffer Reader. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013.
• Pugh, Jeffrey C. Religionless Christianity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Troubled Times. London: T&T Clark, 2008.
• Schlingensiepen, Ferdinand. Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance. Translated by Isabel Best. London: T&T Clark, 2010.
• Scholder, Klaus. The Churches and the Third Reich. Volume 1: Preliminary History and the Time of Illusions, 1918–1934. Translated by John Bowden. London: SCM Press, 1987.
• ———. The Churches and the Third Reich. Volume 2: The Year of Disillusionment, 1934 – Barmen and Rome. Translated by John Bowden. London: SCM Press, 1988.
• Ziegler, Philip G., and Michael Mawson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Oxford Handbooks Oxford: Oxford Academic, 2019.

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