The Cross of Reality: Luther's Theologia Crucis and Bonhoeffer's Christology

The Cross of Reality investigates Bonhoeffer’s interpretation and use of Luther’s theology in shaping his Christology. In this essay, H. Gaylon Barker uses the “theology of the cross” as a key to understanding the characteristic elements that make up Bonhoeffer’s theology; he also shows how Bonhoeffer’s conversation with his teachers and contemporaries, Karl Holl and Karl Barth in particular, develops.

Bonhoeffer’s thought was indeed radical and revolutionary, but it was so precisely because...