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Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, international scholars and practitioners from both church and state examine the legacy of Luther in the life, work, and reception of Bonhoeffer, asking how this contested tradition might guide the public role of the church in the future.
List of contents
Introduction: Reformation: Grappling with a Contested Legacy
Michael P. DeJonge and Clifford J. Green
1. Fatal Coincidences in 1933: Nazism's Triumph and Luther's 450th Birthday
Hartmut Lehmann
2. Looking for Luther, 1933-1939
Victoria J. Barnett
3. Luther in Catholic Perspective across Five Centuries
Euan Cameron
4. Justification, Ethics, and the "Other": Paul, Luther, and Bonhoeffer in Trialogue
Brigitte Kahl
5. Radicalizing Reformation amid Today's Crises, in the Spirit of Bonhoeffer
Karen L. Bloomquist
6. Worldly Worship: Reformation and Economic Ethics
Wolfgang Huber
7. Reformation: Freeing the Church for Authentic Public Witness
Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
8. Between Compromise and Radicalism: Luther's Legacy in Bonhoeffer's Political Thought
Michael P. DeJonge
9. Church, Racism and Resistance: Bonhoeffer and the Critical Dimension of Theological Integrity
Allen Aubrey Boesak
10. "On the Way to Freedom Land": Bonhoeffer and Three Bright Lights of the Civil Rights Movement
Josiah U. Young III
11. Veni, Creator Spiritus! An Ecological Reformation
Larry Rasmussen
12. Reformation through Repentance: The Church's Public Witness
Jennifer M. McBride
13. Bonhoeffer and the Re-Forming Church in a Globalizing Era
Esther D. Reed
14. Bonhoeffer, Truth, Ethics, and Politics
Kevin Rudd, interviewed by Serene Jones
About the author
Michael P. DeJonge is professor and chair of religious studies at the University of South Florida.
Clifford J. Green is Bonhoeffer Chair Scholar at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and project director of the Early Career German-American Bonhoeffer Research Network.
Summary
Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, international scholars and practitioners from both church and state examine the legacy of Luther in the life, work, and reception of Bonhoeffer, asking how this contested tradition might guide the public role of the church in the future.
