Liberating Faith: Bonhoeffer's Message for Today

by Geffrey B. Kelly

Overview

Liberating Faith remains an effective introduction to the theology and spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. After a brief biographical portrait of Bonhoeffer's adult life, Kelly offers a thematic overview of Bonhoeffer's Christological theology with an emphasis on the sociality of Christ. Other chapters focus on the "liberation of faith," which is essentially Bonhoeffer's theology of revelation that emerged from his own existential crisis regarding his own faith and an examination of his theology of the Church. While Kelly draws heavily on Bonhoeffer's later writings like The Cost of Discipleship, Ethics, and especially Letters and Papers from Prison, he also uses key texts spanning the entirety of Bonhoeffer's career to develop the critical ideas at the heart of Bonhoeffer's theology. Therefore, Liberating Faith does very well to set the stage for Bonhoeffer's overall theology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725201323
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	12/11/2002
Series:	Bonhoeffer Secondary Studies Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	23 MB
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About the Author

Geffrey B. Kelly, STD was professor of theology at La Salle College in Philadelphia. He received a PhD and STD from Catholic University in Louvain, Belgium. As an active member of the International Bonhoeffer Society, he published numerous articles and lectured widely on Bonhoeffer.
Geffrey B. Kelly is Professor of Systematic Theology at La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Best known for his research and publications on the theology and spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Kelly is past president of the International Bonhoeffer Society, English Language Section. The present book is the offshoot of his editorial work for the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition--the new translations and critical editions of the collected writings of Bonhoeffer, which are being published by Fortress Press. Among his recent works on Bonhoeffer are Liberating Faith (2002), The Cost of Moral Leadership (2002), and A Testament to Freedom: (1995).