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Dietrich Bonhoeffer : an introduction to his thought / Sabine Dramm ; translated by Thomas Rice.

Dramm, Sabine, 1943- (Author).

Summary:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's thinking is as pertinent to the twenty-first century postmodern church as it was to the German church under Nazi siege and the world-wide church in the half century following his death. Dramm provides a lucid summary of his major theological positions.

Record details

ISBN: 1565637623 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781565637627 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: viii, 258 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258).
Formatted Contents Note:	Approximation and accents -- Rings of years -- Facets of a life -- Calling: theologian -- The language of faith -- God-truly near, truly far -- Jesus Christ-God incarnate and incognito -- The Holy Spirit-at right angles to reason and logic -- Walking the thin line: Sanctorum communio and act and being -- Documents of lived faith: discipleship and life together -- The book of his life: the ethics -- Amor mundi -- The whole man, in the here and now -- Political existence and awareness -- Pax Christi! -- Searching for the lost church -- And the Jews? -- Conspiracy, not collaboration -- Fascination of a fragment: resistance and surrender -- Christianity beyond religion -- A world without God -- God in the world -- Death and God in counterpoint: a fugue -- Future memories.
Language Note:	Translated from the German: Dietrich Bonhoeffer : Eine Einfürung in sein Denken, Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh, Germany, 2001.