A new ethics for a new time?: Rereading Bonhoeffer's "Heritage and Decay"
According to Bonhoeffer, responsibility is a global response of the human being to all reality as a whole. In the fragments of his posthumous Ethics, themes such as discipleship, culture, politics, human rights, and others converge to the same point. In this article, I analyse the context in which t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Stellenbosch theological journal
Year: 2023, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 143-178 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Civilization
B West B Past B Formation (Gestaltung) B Future |
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| Summary: | According to Bonhoeffer, responsibility is a global response of the human being to all reality as a whole. In the fragments of his posthumous Ethics, themes such as discipleship, culture, politics, human rights, and others converge to the same point. In this article, I analyse the context in which these fragments were written and expose the reason why even under the most difficult circumstances, Bonhoeffer thought and lived life responsibly as a whole according to what Karl Barth few years earlier called Theological Existence. |
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| ISSN: | 2413-9467 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Stellenbosch theological journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17570/stj.2023.v9n4.a10 |