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Table of Contents:

• 1 Bonhoeffer: a witness to Christ
• Bonhoeffer the student
• The teacher and ecumenist
• The church struggle
• Director of an illegal seminary
• The costly grace of discipleship
• Work in the German resistance
• The prison letters
• Martyrdom
• 2 Christ, the center of liberated life
• The early christology of the Berlin dissertations
• Christ the center
• The commanding Christ
• Christ, the unity of human existence
• Jesus, the man for others
• 3. The liberation of faith
• Theological anthropology and self-transformation freedom for costly discipleship
• Faith, freedom, and responsibility
• Faith and the affirmation of life
• Participation in the sufferings of God in the world

• 4. Faith, the liberation of the Church
• Bonhoeffer's early ecclesiology: the Church as Christ's presence in the world
• Church and state: tensions in ecclesiology
• The church and the racial issue in the years of crisis
• Church freedom, ecumenism, and the Nazi crisis
• The church's critical presence in the world
• A church confessing guilt: a church for others.
• 5. Freedom and discipline: rhythms of a christocentric spirituality
• Liberation in Christ
• The "discipline of the secret": liberating religion from itself
• "Nonreligious" Christianity: freedom for the Word of God
• Freedom in the prayer of silence and the fellowship of prayer
• Stations on the road to freedom: faith's liberating power
• 6. Conclusion: Bonhoeffer, Church, and the liberation of Peoples
• "The view from below": a challenge to the churches
• Bonhoeffer and the Jews: church guilt in the Holocaust
• Bonhoeffer and contemporary liberation theology
• Church solidarity with the oppressed
• Liberation and the criteria for violence
• The cross of Christ: symbol of courage in faith.

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Author/Creator:

Kelly, Geffrey B.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Liberating faith: Bonhoeffer's message for today [by Kelly, G.B.]

Subjects:

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

206 pages ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

BX4827.B57 K44 1984

ISBNs:

0806620927 (pbk.)
9780806620923 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

84015863

OCLC Numbers:

11068258