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Zusatztext This original and convincing study shows how interconnected and fruitful some key elements in Bonhoeffer’s thinking on the church are, such as his way of relating divine action to human responsibility, his appreciation of the sociological reality of the church and his orientation to God’s future. But above all, Emerton shows how vital the invocation and work of the Holy Spirit is. Informationen zum Autor David Emerton is Director of St Mellitus College, UK.This book exegetes the ecclesiology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a manner which establishes permanently Bonhoeffer’s interest in pneumatology and eschatology whilst also identifying his unique contribution to the field of ecclesiology. Zusammenfassung David Emerton argues that Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ecclesial thought breaks open a necessary ‘third way’ in ecclesiological description between the Scylla of ‘ethnographic’ ecclesiology and the Charybdis of ‘dogmatic’ ecclesiology. Building on a rigorous and provocative discussion of Bonhoeffer’s thought, Emerton establishes a programmatic theological grammar for any speech about the church.Emerton argues that Bonhoeffer understands the church as a pneumatological and eschatological community in space and time, and that his understanding is built on eschatological and pneumatological foundations. These foundations, in turn, give rise to a unique methodological approach to ecclesiological description – an approach that enables Bonhoeffer to proffer a genuinely theological account of the church in which both divine and human agency are held together through an account of God the Holy Spirit. Emerton proposes that this approach is the perfect remedy for an endemic problem in contemporary accounts of the church: that of attending either to the human empirical church-community ethnographically or to the life of God dogmatically; and to each, problematically, at the expense of the other. This book will act as a clarion call towards genuinely theological ecclesiological speech which is allied to real ecclesial action. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction1. Ecclesiological Topography 2. The Theological Foundations of Bonhoeffer’s Ecclesiological Methodology 3. God’s Church-Community: Bonhoeffer’s ‘Both/And’ Ecclesiological Methodology 4. The Pneumatological Space of God’s Church-Community 5. The Eschatological Time of God’s Church-Community ConclusionBibliography Index...
