[PDF] Barth Bonhoeffer And Modern Politics eBook

Author : Joshua Mauldin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 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.

Author : Joshua Mauldin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 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.

Author : Rene De Visme Williamson
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780971191907

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Focusing on the way in which theological concepts apply to politics, this book evaluates contemporary political thought and behavior by measuring it against the ideas of four great theologians of the 20th century.

Author : Wolf Krötke
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 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.

Author : Gary J. Dorrien
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 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.

Author : Tom Greggs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567701603

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This volume uncovers Barth's and Bonhoeffer's influences on one another and reads them side-by-side, revealing the insights both theologians bring to today's secular and religious context. Greggs addresses the meaning and the extent of salvation, God's relation to time and eternity, sin and confession, and inter-faith dialogue for a church that critiques its own practice of religion. This is a lively exploration of the implications of two great theologians' work for a completely secular and religious world.

Author : Markus Höfner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1978710062

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Using the theological work of Karl Barth as a resource for present-day inquiry, the contributors in this volume discuss the complex interconnections between the religious and the political designated by the term theo-politics. Speaking from various political and cultural contexts (Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China) and different disciplinary perspectives (Protestant Theology, Political Sciences, and Sociology), the contributors address contemporary challenges in relating the religious and the political in Western and Asian societies. Topics analyzed include the impact of diverse cultural backgrounds on given theo-political arrangements, theological assessments of political power, the political significance of individual and communal Christian existence and the place of Christian communities in civil societies. In their nuanced discussions of these topics, the contributors neither advocate for a privatized, apolitical understanding of the Christian faith nor for a religious politics seeking to overcome modern processes of differentiation and secularization. Critically engaging Barth’s theology, they examine the Christian responsibility in and for the political sphere and reflect on the practice of such responsibility in Western and Asian contexts.

Author : George Hunsinger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 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

Author : Ralf K. Wüstenberg
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 9783631568736

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What might the often cited phrases from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prison theology mean for the ethical discourse at the beginning of the 21st century? Which hermeneutical concepts might enable contemporary religious thinkers to enter into a dialogue with Bonhoeffer's thought? This collection of lectures will address questions like these both by examining the intellectual, cultural and historical origins of Bonhoeffer's Tegel Theology and by drawing out the ethical consequences of Bonhoeffer's contribution for current political discourses. Going Bonhoeffer and Beyond - as the title indicates - means interpreting contemporary issues like religious pluralism and political ethics in the light of Bonhoeffer's key ideas such as his Christological «life-concept» or his ethical distinction between the «ultimate and the penultimate things».