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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introducing Christian Ethics Between Universality and Specificity
Chapter 2: The Simultaneity of Divinity and Humanity in Luther’s Social Ethics
Chapter 3: The Chalcedonian Christology in Bonhoeffer’s Ethics
Chapter 4: The Christological Shaping of Central Concepts in Bonhoeffer’s Ethics
Chapter 5: Bonhoeffer’s Social Ethics Between Universality and Specificity
Chapter 6: Political Thought in the Polity of Christ
Chapter 7: Living in the Saeculum and Bearing Witness to Christ
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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Ulrik Nissen is Associate Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Riassunto
Ulrik Nissen addresses the difficulty that contemporary theology faces in trying to find a way to maintain both all the shared goods we cherish as political beings, and the call for Christians to be a particular people in the world and bear witness to Christ. Nissen stresses that Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christological ethics allows for a polemical unity between the reality of the world and the reality of God, reconciled in the reality of Christ.
Based on a series of case studies that provide a point of departure for a robust reshaping of Christian humanism and responsibility, Nissen reads Bonhoeffer’s ethics in the light of both his Lutheran heritage and contemporary challenges, highlighting the importance of his thought for political theology. By demonstrating the significant influence of Lutheran and Chalcedonian Christology in contemporary ethics, Nissen provides a robust argument for a love of the common reality we share as human beings, and a call for Christians to bear witness to Christ in the public world.
