Bonhoeffer’s Theological Formation: Berlin, Barth, and Protestant Theology. By Michael P. DeJonge
This book offers us a brief but dense study of Bonhoeffer’s Habilitation thesis, Act and Being. DeJonge argues that it differs interestingly from Barth, that it follows a classic Lutheran line, and that it has more significance for understanding Bonhoeffer’s later work than has usually been allowed....
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 785-787 |
| Review of: | Bonhoeffer's theological formation (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012) (Gorringe, Timothy)
Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012) (Gorringe, Timothy) |
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| Summary: | This book offers us a brief but dense study of Bonhoeffer’s Habilitation thesis, Act and Being. DeJonge argues that it differs interestingly from Barth, that it follows a classic Lutheran line, and that it has more significance for understanding Bonhoeffer’s later work than has usually been allowed., Bonhoeffer classifies understandings of revelation as focused either on act or on being. Act, we are told, means discontinuous, contingent, and structurally open; being means continuous and structurally closed. Bonhoeffer engaged with Scheler and Heidegger, but he argues that all philosophy tends to orient itself around the self. His real interest was in Barth, the really exciting object in the theological firmament at this time. Barth committed himself to an act ontology very early on. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls115 |