Description
Product ID: | 9781978709355 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context |
Authors: | Author: Peter Hooton |
Page Count: | 222 |
Subjects: | Theology, Theology, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects |
Description: | In this book, Peter Hooton explores Bonhoeffer’s response to the challenge of a future “religionless age” in Western civilization and its place in his theology. The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer understood Western civilization to be “approaching a completely religionless age” to which Christians must respond and adapt. This book explores Bonhoeffer’s own response to this challenge—his concept of a religionless Christianity—and its place in his broader theology. It does this, first, by situating the concept in a present-day Western socio-historical context. It then considers Bonhoeffer’s understanding and critique of religion, before examining the religionless Christianity of his final months in the light of his earlier Christ-centred theology. The place of mystery, paradox, and wholeness in Bonhoeffer’s thinking is also given careful attention, and non-religious interpretation is taken seriously as an ongoing task. The book aspires to present religionless Christianity as a lucid and persuasive contemporary theology; and does this always in the presence of the question which inspired Bonhoeffer’s theological journey from its academic beginnings to its very deliberately lived end—the question “Who is Jesus Christ?” |
Imprint Name: | Lexington Books/Fortress Academic |
Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-05-15 |