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Zusatztext Jacob Phillips’ text takes up an important project in Bonhoeffer scholarship, addressing contradictions between Discipleship and Ethics vis-à-vis unreflective and reflective obedience to God. Pairing close readings of Bonhoeffer’s work with hermeneutical insight from Immanuel Kant and Wilhelm Dilthey, Phillips arrives at a constructive integration of those contradictions. Moreover, he places his work in conversation with the varied scholarly reception of Discipleship and Bonhoeffer’s own cautionary words about the ‘dangers’ of his earlier work. I highly recommend this book for serious students of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s life and legacy. Informationen zum Autor Jacob Phillips is Director of the Institute of Theology at St Mary's University, UK. Vorwort A critical study of a neglected aspect of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theology: his writing on human subjectivity, self-reflection, and individual identity ‘in Christ’. Zusammenfassung Jacob Phillips presents a critical study of a neglected aspect of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theology: his writing on human subjectivity, self-reflection, and individual identity ‘in Christ’. In response to the rise of chronic self-representation through digital technology, Phillips argues that Bonhoeffer presents a radical challenge, maintaining that – from the perspective of Christian theology - there is something deeply negative about beholding representations of oneself. Bonhoeffer instead holds that discipleship means adopting a posture of radical agnosticism toward one’s own identity. Phillips focuses on the interrelation of ‘simplicity’ and ‘reflection’ in theological cognition and ethical deliberation, showing a wider significance in contemporary theological anthropology, soteriology and ethics. By following the tradition of reading Bonhoeffer in relation to the philosophical sources, such as Wüstenberg , Janz, Whitson-Floyd, Marsh, Zimmermann, Gregor, Phillips highlights the ways in which Bonhoeffer’s work relates to modern debates in epistemology and ethics generally, and that of Wilhelm Dilthey and hermeneutical phenomenology in particular. This volume offers a detailed theological analysis of the themes of self-identity, human subjectivity, and self-understanding, which are highly pertinent for contemporary society. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Simplicity and WisdomChapter 2: The Simplicity of Discipleship Chapter 3: Interpreting the Simplicity of Discipleship Chapter 4: Simplicity and the Transcendental Attempt Chapter 5: The Actus Reflectus as Wisdom: Reconciling the Unreflective and Reflective in Act and Being Chapter 6: Towards Practical Discernment as Wisdom: Unreflective and Reflective Agency in Ethics Chapter 7: The ‘Transcendental Unity of Apperception’ and the ‘Categorical Imperative’ in the ‘Flow of Life’Chapter 8: Articulating the ‘Original Togetherness’ of Life: Wilhelm Dilthey in Relation to Dietrich BonhoefferChapter 9: The Unreflective ‘I’ and Reflective Self-Understanding in DiltheyChapter 10: Unreflective and Reflective Agency in DiltheyChapter 11: Gestalt : Aesthetics and Agency in Wilhelm DiltheyChapter 12: Integrating Simplicity and Wisdom BibliographyIndex ...
