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Zusatztext Mawson has journeyed with Bonhoeffer for two decades, across continents, through his academic career and lifelong ministry. This latest work demonstrates his long-term scholarship on Bonhoeffer and his critics, including contemporary works that engage important issues with which good theology must wrestle. As Mawson demonstrates, Bonhoeffer provides a hermeneutical key to do so. This important book deserves the wide readership it will attract largely because of Mawson’s attentive scholarship and his clear and accessible writing. Informationen zum Autor Michael Mawson is the Maclaurin Goodfellow Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and faculty member of the Charles Sturt University School of Theology, Australia. Klappentext Standing Under the Cross focuses on Bonhoeffer's rich theological and ethical thinking. It places Bonhoeffer in conversation with a wide range of modern theologians, including Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Jürgen Moltmann, and James Cone. The book gives particular attention to hermeneutics, the body, and Bonhoeffer's rich reflections on community and discipleship. Mawson attends to the complex ways in which these aspects of Bonhoeffer's thinking work together, and shows how they can assist us in responding to some of the challenges confronting us today. Vorwort This collection of essays explores Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s cruciform theology in relation to other theological perspectives and contemporary ethical challenges. Zusammenfassung Standing Under the Cross focuses on Bonhoeffer’s rich theological and ethical thinking. It places Bonhoeffer in conversation with a wide range of modern theologians, including Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Jürgen Moltmann, and James Cone. The book gives particular attention to hermeneutics, the body, and Bonhoeffer’s rich reflections on community and discipleship. Mawson attends to the complex ways in which these aspects of Bonhoeffer’s thinking work together, and shows how they can assist us in responding to some of the challenges confronting us today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1 Studying Theology in a Time of Crisis: Bonhoefferian Insights for Theological Thinking Today Part I: The Forms of the Word Chapter 2 'As a Whole and in its Parts': Bonhoeffer's Approach to Scripture Chapter 3: Living in the Forms of the Word: Bonhoeffer and Franz Rozenweig on the Apocalyptic Materiality of Scripture Chapter 4 The Weakness of the Word and the Reality of God: Bonhoeffer's Grammar of Worldly Living Chapter 5 Lutheran or Lutherish? Engaging Michael DeJonge on Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther Part II: The Vulnerabilities of Bodily Life Chapter 6 Creatures Coram Deo : Bonhoeffer, Disability and Theological Anthropology Chapter 7 Encountering Grace After the Fall: Bonhoeffer’s 'Natural Life' as a Response to Gerald McKenny on Biotechnology Chapter 8 Should We Live Forever? Reflections on Life Extension Technologies with Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth Part III: The Politics of the Cross Chapter 9 'Only Suffering God can Help': Bonhoeffer and Jürgen Moltmann on Divine Passibility Chapter 10 The Spirit and the Community: Pneumatology and Ecclesiology in Robert Jenson, Reinhard Hütter and Bonhoeffer Chapter 11 The Politics of Jesus and the Ethics of Christ: On Why Bonhoeffer is not an Anabaptist Chapter 12 The Stumbling Block and the Lynching Tree: Reading Bonhoeffer's 'Lectures on Christology' with James ConeBibliography Index...
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Michael Mawson is Maclaurin Goodfellow Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
