Bonhoeffer and Christology

Revisiting Chalcedon

Matthias Grebe, Nadine Hamilton, Christian Schlenker, Matthias Grebe, Nadine Hamilton, Christian Schlenker

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780567708410
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567708458
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Systematic Theology & Ethics

The key question this volume addresses is 'how does Bonhoeffer's thought help to re(dis)cover the doctrine of Christ's two natures and one person and understand and renew it in its significance for a modern post-metaphysical and secular world?'

The volume takes a fresh look at Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christology and brings it into a fruitful dialogue with current Christological debates. In a multi-perspectival, pluralistic world, Bonhoeffer's thinking offers a productive basis for conceptually incorporating the openness required for this task into academic theology. Bonhoeffer's theology offers a starting point for the recovery of a productive Christology that reflects the plurality of the globalized world, as Bonhoeffer's Christology begins precisely with this integration into worldly reality, whereby the world is understood in its plurality and polyphony.

In this way, he characterizes his enterprise as follows: "What keeps gnawing at me is the question, what is Christianity, or who is Christ actually for us today" (DBWE 8, 362). Accordingly, it opens itself up not only to inner-Christian discussion but also to non-Christian worldviews, from which a basic ethical demand follows.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• List of contributors
• List of abbreviations
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I Recovering Chalcedonian Logic with Bonhoeffer
• Part II Jesus Christ: Vere Homo, Vere Deus
• Part III The World And The Church
• Cumulative bibliography
• Index
• Imprint