Liberating faith :
Kelly, Geffrey B.
Liberating faith : Bonhoeffer's message for today / Geffrey B. Kelly ; introduction by Eberhard Bethge. - Minneapolis : Augsburg Pub. House, c1984. - 206 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1 Bonhoeffer: a witness to Christ -- Bonhoeffer the student -- The teacher and ecumenist -- The church struggle -- Director of an illegal seminary -- The costly grace of discipleship -- Work in the German resistance -- The prison letters -- Martyrdom -- 2 Christ, the center of liberated life -- The early christology of the Berlin dissertations -- Christ the center -- The commanding Christ -- Christ, the unity of human existence -- Jesus, the man for others -- 3. The liberation of faith -- Theological anthropology and self-transformation freedom for costly discipleship -- Faith, freedom, and responsibility -- Faith and the affirmation of life -- Participation in the sufferings of God in the world -- 4. Faith, the liberation of the Church -- Bonhoeffer's early ecclesiology: the Church as Christ's presence in the world -- Church and state: tensions in ecclesiology -- The church and the racial issue in the years of crisis -- Church freedom, ecumenism, and the Nazi crisis -- The church's critical presence in the world -- A church confessing guilt: a church for others -- 5. Freedom and discipline: rhythms of a christocentric spirituality -- Liberation in Christ -- The "discipline of the secret": liberating religion from itself -- "Nonreligious" Christianity: freedom for the Word of God -- Freedom in the prayer of silence and the fellowship of prayer -- Stations on the road to freedom: faith's liberating power -- 6. Conclusion: Bonhoeffer, Church, and the liberation of Peoples -- "The view from below": a challenge to the churches -- Bonhoeffer and the Jews: church guilt in the Holocaust -- Bonhoeffer and contemporary liberation theology -- Church solidarity with the oppressed -- Liberation and the criteria for violence -- The cross of Christ: symbol of courage in faith.
0806620927 (pbk.) 9780806620923 (pbk.)
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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.
Liberating faith : Bonhoeffer's message for today / Geffrey B. Kelly ; introduction by Eberhard Bethge. - Minneapolis : Augsburg Pub. House, c1984. - 206 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1 Bonhoeffer: a witness to Christ -- Bonhoeffer the student -- The teacher and ecumenist -- The church struggle -- Director of an illegal seminary -- The costly grace of discipleship -- Work in the German resistance -- The prison letters -- Martyrdom -- 2 Christ, the center of liberated life -- The early christology of the Berlin dissertations -- Christ the center -- The commanding Christ -- Christ, the unity of human existence -- Jesus, the man for others -- 3. The liberation of faith -- Theological anthropology and self-transformation freedom for costly discipleship -- Faith, freedom, and responsibility -- Faith and the affirmation of life -- Participation in the sufferings of God in the world -- 4. Faith, the liberation of the Church -- Bonhoeffer's early ecclesiology: the Church as Christ's presence in the world -- Church and state: tensions in ecclesiology -- The church and the racial issue in the years of crisis -- Church freedom, ecumenism, and the Nazi crisis -- The church's critical presence in the world -- A church confessing guilt: a church for others -- 5. Freedom and discipline: rhythms of a christocentric spirituality -- Liberation in Christ -- The "discipline of the secret": liberating religion from itself -- "Nonreligious" Christianity: freedom for the Word of God -- Freedom in the prayer of silence and the fellowship of prayer -- Stations on the road to freedom: faith's liberating power -- 6. Conclusion: Bonhoeffer, Church, and the liberation of Peoples -- "The view from below": a challenge to the churches -- Bonhoeffer and the Jews: church guilt in the Holocaust -- Bonhoeffer and contemporary liberation theology -- Church solidarity with the oppressed -- Liberation and the criteria for violence -- The cross of Christ: symbol of courage in faith.
0806620927 (pbk.) 9780806620923 (pbk.)
84015863
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.
