Synopses & Reviews
One of the twentieth century's best theological ethicists, Heinz Eduard T?dt personally experienced the struggle of Nazi Germany that so shaped Bonhoeffer. T?dt said that the further he went, the closer he got to Bonhoeffer. In Authentic Faith he clarifies major dimensions of Bonhoeffer's ethics with precision and enables us to enter personally into the political, ecclesiastical, and family context in which Bonhoeffer wrote. T?dt first discusses Bonhoeffer's theology and ethics formed during his own tumultuous time and then focuses on how they can inform and influence contemporary history. T?dt especially concerns himself with the present tasks in theology and in the church, clearing a path for understanding our lives through theology's eyes and drawing us toward the ethical wisdom we need to navigate the ideological struggles of our own time. Authentic Faith shows an understanding of Bonhoeffer's spirit that makes this book a must for the shelves of any Bonhoeffer scholar and all students of social and theological ethics.
Table of Contents
The disquieting legacy: characteristics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology -- Meaning and promise: considerations regarding Dietrich Bonhoeffer's late theology -- Belief in a non-religious world: must one choose between Barth and Bonhoeffer? -- End, or Comeback of religion? Forty-five years after Dietrich Bonhoeffer's thesis of a religionless Christianity -- Resistance by word and political resistance in ethical responsibility: the individual, the groups, and the church -- Discrimination against Jews in 1933: the real test for Bonhoeffer's ethics -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's ecumenical ethic of peace -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological ethics and human rights -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's practice of conscience and ethical theory of conscience -- Conflicts of conscience in the resistance against the National Socialist regime of injustice: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's account "After ten years" -- The Bonhoeffer-Dohnanyi Circle in opposition and resistance to Hitler's regime of violence: interim report on a research project -- The November crimes of 1938 and German Protestantism: ideological and theological presuppositions for the toleration of the pogrom -- Dealing with guilt in the church's confession and in the justice system after 1945 -- Suppressed responsibility: Protestant church and theology forty years after the day of the end of the war.