More Details

Summary:

"Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself." These are words Dietrich Bonhoeffer spoke to his brother a few months before he began training future pastors in the ways of discipleship. For several years he had been speaking out against war. Near the beginning of the anti-Semitic Nazi regime, he called on his fellow Christians to speak out against a state that was engaging in oppressive measures, to respond to victims of oppression, and to be willing to suffer, as a church, if it was required to stop such oppression. His vision for training disciples was rooted in pure doctrine, serious worship, a new kind of monasticism, and the Sermon on the Mount. Bonhoeffer was convinced that through the living presence of Jesus and the explosive teachings of the Sermon on the Mount "lies the force that can blow all this hocus-pocus sky-high--like fireworks, leaving only a few burnt-out shells behind." This is the legacy of this extraordinary theologian that this book seeks to recover--exploring how this was lived out in a world full of Nazis.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : It is important to do theology and only theology
• 1. Toward retrieving the true legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• 2. "Only the one who cries out for the Jews may sing Gregorian chants"
• 3. "We should not balk here at using the word 'pacifism'"
• 4. Discipleship in a world full of nazis
• 5. "A blanket license to commit evil acts"?
• 6. Discipleship amidst the rubble
• Epilogue : "Invisibility is ruining us!"
• Appendix q. Whose bonhoeffer? Which hermeneutic? : toward preserving the "whole cloth"
• Appendix 2. "Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence? : How could Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran, make such a claim? / Mark Thiessen Nation and Stanley Hauerwas
• Appendix 3. Jesus, Bonhoeffer, and Christoform hermeneutics / Scot McKnight
• Appendix 4. "A hidden life" : directed by Terrenc Malick (Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2019)

Author/Creator:

Nation, Mark , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Discipleship in a world full of nazis: recovering the true legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer [by Nation, M.]

Subjects:

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945

Christianity and politics

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-236) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

BX4827.B57 N38 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781725295100 (electronic bk.)
1725295105 (electronic bk.)
1725295083 [Invalid]
9781725295087 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1295352673

Other Control Numbers:

3167290 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302711977