Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics
Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics

Author: Joshua Mauldin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-01-18

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0192637525

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Recent political events around the world have raised the spectre of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary concerns about the decline of liberal democracy are reminicent to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each reflected on what the rise of totalitarianism meant for the aspirations of modern politics. Engaging the realities of totalitarian terror, they avoided despairing rejections of modern society. Beginning with Barth in the wake of the First World War, following Bonhoeffer through the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany, and concluding with Barth's post-war reflections in the 1950s, this study explores how these figures reflected on modern society during this turbulent time and how their work is relevant to the current crisis of modern democracy.

Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics
Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics

Author: Joshua Mauldin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021-01-18

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0198867514

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This innovative study brings together two areas of discourse that have not been connected before: interpretations of Barth and Bonhoeffer on one hand and narratives of modernity on the other.

Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Author: Wolf Krötke

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1493416790

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Wolf Krötke, a foremost interpreter of the theologies of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, demonstrates the continuing significance of these two theologians for Christian faith and life. This book enables readers to look with fresh eyes at the theologies of Barth and Bonhoeffer and offers new insights for reading the history of modern theology. It also helps churches see how they can be creative minorities in societies that have forgotten God. Translated by a senior American scholar of Christian theology, this is the first major translation of Krötke's work in the English language. The book includes a foreword by George Hunsinger.

Theology Against Religion
Theology Against Religion

Author: Tom Greggs

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-12-29

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0567104230

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A constructive approach from a theological perspective about the category of religion in Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth.

The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology
The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology

Author: Gary J. Dorrien

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780664221515

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In this history of the rise, development, and near-demise of Karl Barth's theology, Gary Dorrien carefully analyzes the making of the Barthian revolution and the reasons behind its simultaneously dominating and marginal character. He discusses Barth's relationship to his predecessors and contemporaries, as well as to modern theologians, and argues that his approach to theology was deeply indebted to his liberal past.

Karl Barth and Radical Politics, Second Edition
Karl Barth and Radical Politics, Second Edition

Author: George Hunsinger

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1532603940

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Karl Barth was one of the most important Christian theologians of the twentieth century, but his political views have often not been taken sufficiently into account. Beginning with a representative early essay by Karl Barth, this volume proceeds with essays by Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, Helmut Gollwitzer, Hermann Diem, Dieter Schellong, Joseph Bettis, and George Hunsinger. These contributions engage both the relationship of Barth’s theology to his socialist politics as well as Marquardt’s analysis. This new edition expands upon the earlier one by adding three new essays by Hunsinger on Barth’s theology and its relevance for human rights, liberation theology, and the theories of René Girard on violence and scapegoating. Hunsinger has extended the discussion as well as deepened our insight into how theology can speak meaningfully about fundamental issues of human need. With contributions from: Karl Barth Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt Helmut Gollwitzer Hermann Diem Dieter Schellong Joseph Bettis George Hunsinger

The Legacy of the Barmen Declaration
The Legacy of the Barmen Declaration

Author: Fred Dallmayr

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1793601348

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In 1934, during the Nazi regime in Germany, members of the Confessing Church issued the Declaration of Barmen, which reaffirmed their primary loyalty to the word of God. With their action, they established a legacy for future generations to follow in similar situations.This volume examines the historical, political, and theological context of the creation of the Barmen Declaration, as it constituted an act of theological and political resistance against tyranny, terror, and fascism. The work of the Barmen Declaration demonstrated clearly and powerfully the "this-worldly" ethical and political salience of religion and theology to empower witness, resistance, and solidarity. Containing contributions from an inclusive array of renowned scholars, the volume unfolds the lasting legacy and continued relevance of Barmen.

Karl Barth and Liberation Theology
Karl Barth and Liberation Theology

Author: Paul Dafydd Jones

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-12-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0567698807

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This volume puts Barth and liberation theologies in critical and constructive conversation. With incisive essays from a range of noted scholars, it forges new connections between Barth's expansive corpus and the multifaceted world of Christian liberation theology. It shows how Barth and liberation theologians can help us to make sense of – and perhaps even to respond to – some of the most pressing issues of our day: race and racism in the United States; changing understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality; the ongoing degradation of the ecosphere; the relationship between faith, theological reflection, and the arts; the challenge of decolonizing Christian thought; and ecclesial and political life in the Global South.

Honest to God
Honest to God

Author: John A. T. Robinson

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2014-09-16

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 0334053501

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On first publication in the 1960s, "Honest to God" did more than instigate a passionate debate about the nature of Christian belief in a secular revolution. It epitomised the revolutionary mood of the era and articulated the anxieties of a generation.

Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation
Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation

Author: Michael P. DeJonge

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-02-23

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 0199639787

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A detailed examination of the academic formation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology, arguing that the young Bonhoeffer reinterpreted for a modern intellectual context the Lutheran understanding of the 'person' of Jesus Christ and distinguishing Bonhoeffer's theology from that of contemporaries Karl Barth and Karl Holl.