Princes of the Church: Two-Kingdoms Resistance in Friedrich Schleiermacher and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
How can a faith community respond to state measures that would alter its practices? This essay responds to the question by examining the life and work of two church leaders for whom the question was acute: Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945). Both were Protestant...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2023, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 90-109 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Two kingdoms doctrine
/ Schleiermacher, Friedrich 1768-1834
/ Bonhoeffer, Dietrich 1906-1945
/ Religion
/ Church
/ State
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| IxTheo Classification: | SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | How can a faith community respond to state measures that would alter its practices? This essay responds to the question by examining the life and work of two church leaders for whom the question was acute: Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945). Both were Protestant theologians who worked at the University of Berlin; both engaged deeply with the philosophy of their times while maintaining an ecclesial starting point for their theologies; both were patriotic Germans who lived through wartime and repressive state measures. In spite of these similarities, they are very rarely considered together in the literature. This gap in scholarship is likely because of their characterizations as, respectively, a "cultural accommodationist" and a "theologian of resistance." Moreover, Schleiermacher was a major contributor to German "nationalism," which Bonhoeffer opposed in a later degenerate form. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csac044 |