Bonhoeffer and Christology: Revisiting Chalcedon

by Matthias Grebe (Editor), Nadine Hamilton (Editor), Christian Schlenker (Editor)

Overview

The key question this volume addresses is 'how does Bonhoeffer's thought help to re(dis)cover the doctrine of Christ's two natures and one person and understand and renew it in its significance for a modern post-metaphysical and secular world?'

The volume takes a fresh look at Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christology and brings it into a fruitful dialogue with current Christological debates. In a multi-perspectival, pluralistic world, Bonhoeffer's thinking offers a productive basis for conceptually incorporating the openness required for this task into academic theology. Bonhoeffer's theology offers a starting point for the recovery of a productive Christology that reflects the plurality of the globalized world, as Bonhoeffer's Christology begins precisely with this integration into worldly reality, whereby the world is understood in its plurality and polyphony.

In this way, he characterizes his enterprise as follows: “What keeps gnawing at me is the question, what is Christianity, or who is Christ actually for us today” (DBWE 8, 362). Accordingly, it opens itself up not only to inner-Christian discussion but also to non-Christian worldviews, from which a basic ethical demand follows.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567708458
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/18/2023
Series:	T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer's Theology and Ethics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	732 KB

About the Author

Matthias Grebe is Lecturer and Tutor, St Mellitus College, UK.

Nadine Hamilton is Teaching Fellow of Systematic Theology at University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Christian Schlenker is PhD candidate in the Department of Theology and Ethics at University of Tübingen, Germany.

Matthias Grebe is Lecturer and Tutor at St. Mellitus College, London, and Associate Vicar at St. Edward, King and Martyr, in Cambridge. Prior to his current position, Matthias held a senior research fellowship at the University of Bonn. He studied theology at Tübingen, Cambridge, and Princeton, and finished his doctorate at Cambridge in 2012.
Nadine Hamilton is Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Christian Schlenker is a lecturer in Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Preface

Introduction
Dr Nadine Hamilton (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Christian Schlenker (Tübingen) and Matthias Grebe (St Mellitus College, UK)


Part One: Recovering Chalcedonian Logic with Bonhoeffer
1. The Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christology and the Contemporary Debates on Chalcedon, Christoph Schwöbel
2. Ontology and Salvation: Why Chalcedon Matters for Bonhoeffer, Rowan Williams
3. Kierkegaard's and Bonhoeffer's Paradox Christology, Lea Weber (University of Tübingen, Germany)
4. Bonhoeffer's Understanding of Chalcedon in Dialogue with Contemporary Catholic Christology, Jacob Phillips (St Mary's University, UK)
5. 'To Carry on in this Chalcedonian Sense' – Christology in Letters and Papers from Prison, Philip G. Ziegler (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Part Two: Jesus Christ: Vere Homo, Vere Deus
6. Being Human in Light of Chalcedon: The Necessary Possibility of Being One, Nadine Hamilton (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
7. Bonhoeffer's Ecce Homo!: Christology from the Centre and the Fullness of Life, Christian Schlenker (University of Tübingen, Germany)
8. The Suffering God: Bonhoeffer and Chalcedonian Christology, Matthias Grebe (St Mellitus College, UK)
9. How God Suffers: Bonhoeffer, Moltmann and Theological Language, Michael Mawson (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Part Three: The World and the Church
10. Christology's Counterpoint: Bonhoeffer on Knowing the Christ Who Calls, Koert Verhagen (Taylor University, USA)
11. 'Preparing the way' for God's Word: A Central Motif of Bonhoeffer's Ethics and its Implications for Public Theology, Hannah Bleher (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
12. 'Going Ahead' as Real Human Beings in the Gemeinde: Bonhoeffer's Christological Form and Formation in Suffering and Dying, Samuel Efrain Murillo Torres (University of Aberdeen, UK)
13. Jesus Christ: The Centre of the Church, David Emerton (St Mellitus College, UK)

Bibliography
index

Editorial Reviews

This volume, organized around Bonhoeffer's provocative engagement with Chalcedonian Christology, is a gem! The contributions from senior scholars are masterpieces, and the work of the younger generation shows that Bonhoeffer scholarship has a bright future.” —Michael DeJonge, University of South Florida, USA

“This volume approaches Bonhoeffer's Chalcedonian Christology from a multi-perspective including doctrinal, ecclesiological, ethical, and philosophical perspectives. The book hereby contributes to previous studies on Chalcedon in Bonhoeffer's thought and explores the fullness of what it means today that Christ is truly God and truly man.” —Ulrik Nissen, Aarhus University, Denmark

“Bonhoeffer's radical Christological reflections on the “who” of Christ, discipleship, the church and the world have had almost immeasurable impact on the theology of the last eighty years. This volume is a wonderful, and much needed, resource for anyone seeking to understand not only Bonhoeffer but also Christology more fully.” —Tom Greggs, FRSE, Univeristy of Aberdeen, UK

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